Jewish community in Spain

'Feared for my life': French Jew recalls antisemitic attacks in Barcelona when leaving synagogue

"For 40 minutes, hundreds of people humiliated us and spat on us. There was a huge crowd around us. We feared we would be murdered," Jimmy Zaghroun, a 41-year-old French Jew from Paris, said.

People march during a pro-Palestinian protest in Barcelona, Spain, October 4, 2025
The Rambam

A Maimonides statue in Córdoba was defaced. His writings have an answer to hate - opinion

Members of the Guardia Civil USECIC guard migrants on Tarajal beach after crossing the border between Spain and Morocco on July 31, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain.

Spanish MEP appeals to Netanyahu to back Spain's sovereignty amid Ceuta border crisis

The vandalized statue of the Rambam.

Police investigate swastika graffiti painted over Rambam statue in Cordoba, Spain


Jewish woman to be knighted for helping Sephardic Jews gain Spanish citizenship

A Seattle Jewish woman will be knighted next month for her efforts in helping Jews return to their roots.

 Doreen Alhadeff was the first American Jew to receive Spanish citizenship under the country's right of return law

Spanish foundation teaches millions of Spaniards that they have Jewish roots

“The Museo HispanoJudío is our most important project,” Hatchwell Altaras said. “It will be a place to rediscover our origins, our values, and the desire for a future of fraternity and peace.”


Madrid leads the fight against antisemitism - opinion

 2010 General strike in Spain

What was the unhappy fate of a Jewish tax collector in medieval Spain?

A sculpture in Toledo honors a medieval treasurer killed by the king.

 Rosa Hidalgo with the sculpture.

Spanish towns unearthing ancient synagogues for historical value, tourism

The goal is not only to preserve and foster Jewish history and culture, but also to draw tourism to small Spanish towns that lack tourists.

 The interior of the Synagogue of Lorca in Murcia, Spain.

Island Jews: From Majorca to Canada

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 25

 Xueta Island

90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews become citizens of Portugal and Spain

Portugal and Spain passed laws offering a naturalization process for descendants of Sephardic Jews, which has resulted in 90,000 descendants becoming citizens of these countries since 2015.

 Two Israeli women arriving in Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 15, 2020.

On This Day: 955 years since the murder of Jews in Granada massacre

The Jewish vizier was crucified and thousands of Jews in the city were killed in what is widely considered to be an antisemitic pogrom marking the end of Spanish Jewry's Golden Age.

Alandalusian architecture in Granada, Spain (Illustrative).

Jewish Spain: 2,000 years of heritage and counting

The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry saw great poets, authors, astronomers, physicians and religious scholars. In most cases, there is little to see today of this great past.

The exterior of what was once the El Transito Synagogue in Toledo, Spain founded in the 1300s

Rich Sephardi legacy of Murcia brought to light after agreement signed

"This agreement is more than a religious and cultural reference point, it is an invitation to dialogue, to work together, to learn from our history to know that nothing should divide us."

President of the Region of Murcia Fernando López Miras and President of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation David Hatchwell, in the old synagogue of Lorca, July 2020.