Orge Castellano
View of Barcelona (Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric via Pexels)
September 7, 2023, 10:17 am
Barcelona resumes ‘sister city’ relationship with Tel Aviv
Former mayor’s decision reversed
By Orge Castellano
A 14th-century synagogue Utrera was unearthed by archeologists in Spain. (Courtesy Utrera City council)
February 9, 2023, 3:40 pm
A hospital-turned-church-turned-bar in Spain revealed as medieval synagogue
The synagogue complex in Utrera, in the province of Seville, is believed to be among the largest ever found on the Iberian Peninsula from the medieval era.
By Orge Castellano
A guard climbs stairs by the entrance to the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo, or former Jewish Ghetto, in Venice. (Orge Castellano)
April 21, 2022, 2:41 pm
Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance
Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling back in time.
By Orge Castellano
Using an expired Spanish law that extended citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, Ángel Sanz-Briz saved 5,200 Hungarian Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. (Photo courtesy of Centro Serafad-Israel via JTA)
October 6, 2021, 1:11 pm
Spain seeking descendants of those saved by the ‘Spanish Schindler’
Ángel Sanz Briz saved 5,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
By Orge Castellano
A building of the University of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain. (Iago Pillado/Wikimedia Commons)
August 26, 2021, 9:12 am
Spanish university cancels ‘Auschwitz/Gaza’ seminar
The seminar's focus was comparing the Holocaust to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Orge Castellano
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