Tag: Oporto
Oporto Jewish community promotes film on 1506 Lisbon massacre
Jewish communities don’t ordinarily double as film production companies, but the community of Oporto, Portugal, has shown itself to be anything but ordinary. It has begun promotion for its third film, “1506: The Lisbon...
Vandalism of Oporto synagogue: ‘It is an offense, it is antisemitism’
The synagogue of Oporto’s Jewish community was vandalized with graffiti on Wednesday in the wake of war between Israel and Hamas. The words, "Free Palestine," and "End Israeli apartheid" were spray-painted on the gate...
Oporto Jewish Community seeks justice for its founder, the ‘Portuguese Dreyfus’
The Jewish Community of Oporto, Portugal, is campaigning to have its founder posthumously reinstated into the army.
Capt. Arthur Carlos Barros Basto (1887-1961), a decorated Portuguese army officer who fought in World War I, was...
Lisbon appeals court throws out restrictions on Portugal rabbi
The Lisbon Court of Appeal on Tuesday revoked “coercive measures” against Daniel Litvak, the rabbi of the Portuguese city of Oporto. The restrictions were part of a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against the community,...
Oporto Jewish Community accuses Portugal of waging anti-Semitic campaign
The Oporto Jewish Community on Monday again accused the Portuguese state of conducting an “ongoing anti-Semitic campaign,” after police raided the offices of several law firms and the home of the curator of the city’s Jewish...
Portuguese Jewish community ‘slandered’ in campaign against ‘Sephardic law’
The Jewish community of Oporto, Portugal’s second-largest city, says it has been the victim of an anti-Semitic campaign orchestrated by “agents of the state” seeking to abolish the Nationality Law for Portuguese Sephardic Jews....