Tag: Spain

Vicente Giner (Altea, 1930) was 13 years old when that group of fifteen or twenty Polish Jews arrived at his house in Les, in Lleida, during the Second World War. "I remember everything perfectly...

Spain and Portugal have a rich Jewish history.  Jews were in the Iberian Peninsula since the days of the Roman empire.  Jewish culture flourished under Moorish rules, where Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted.  Even...

The High Court of Justice in Spain’s Asturias province ruled that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel was unconstitutional. Last year, the City Council of Castrillon in northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting...

The city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain’s Asturias region, has purportedly canceled an upcoming concert by Israel’s NK Orchestra and a ballet performance. The producer of the concert set to take place in Oviedo...

ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group, is exploring legal action against the city council of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, after it passed a pro-BDS resolution. The city council of Valencia approved a motion last week to...

NEW YORK - The World Jewish Congress on Thursday welcomed a landmark agreement reached between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), aimed at combating...

The Lawfare Project threatened legal action against Google, Yahoo and Twitter in Spain for failing to address the proliferation of Holocaust-denial websites and anti-Semitic materials on their platforms, announced Brooke Goldstein, director of the...

Bashar Assad has risen from the dead. Confident, brazen and annoyingly soft-spoken, the man who two years ago was discounted as a dead man walking emerged Sunday in the Syrian Foreign Ministry where he wowed...

The chief rabbi of Catalonia has told Jews that they should leave the Spanish region and move to Israel because of fears of further radical Islamist attacks. Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic...