MADRID, (REUTERS) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish ...

For many years, guides leading visitors on tours of Jewish history in Spain have shared rumors that Christopher Columbus was ...

A new study led by Spanish scientists has revealed that Christopher Columbus may have been of Sephardic Jewish origin, contradicting the long-held belief that he was from Genoa, Italy. DNA analysis of ...

Spanish scientists have used DNA analysis to uncover the true origin of Christopher Columbus, claiming he was a Sephardic Jew ...

A recently televised documentary in Spain rekindles competing versions of the famed explorer's origins, but the scientific ...

NO. Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial ...

A 22-year investigation by Spanish forensic researchers concluded that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western ...

Ely Winkler, a 37-year-old LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, will soon be back at an Orthodox synagogue after years of distancing himself from his community. “After the war broke out between ...

David Yosef was elected on Sunday to succeed his brother Yitzhak as Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi. The election for his Ashkenazi counterpart ended in a tie, requiring a second round between ...

A statutory election committee convened on Sunday to elect the next Sephardic and Ashkenazi chief rabbis. The elections marked the end of a drawn-out struggle between the Knesset’s religious ...

Rabbi David Yosef, 67, was on Sunday elected the Grand Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, but the vote for his Ashkenazy counterpart will go to a second round. Yosef succeeds his own brother Yitzhak ...