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

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

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

A new study led by Spanish scientists has revealed that Christopher Columbus may have been of Sephardic Jewish origin, ...

Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his ... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew,” said the rabbi, who recently turned 90. An audio recording of some of ...

“We started to reach out with any means at our disposal to the world of Jews, telling them: Look at Sepharad [Hebrew word for the Iberian Peninsula], this is where Sephardic Jews come ...

Lebanon’s Hizbullah launched a rocket targeting Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv, which it says was responsible for assassinating its leaders and blowing up pagers and walkie-talkies used by ...

Peace talks were nowhere in sight and, despite Yahya Sinwar’s death, the violence seemed only to increase, as Israel struck northern Gaza and Hezbollah fired dozens of projectiles. By Aaron ...

Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon, now in its third week, expanded in recent days to include a new front near the Mediterranean coast. An analysis of commercial satellite imagery shows ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to ...

Hamas has been regularly accused of manipulating the death count in Gaza throughout the war, but with independent verification being nearly impossible, such accusations have been hard to prove ...