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Why food makers in Portugal are going kosher (JTA) — Portugal’s tallest mountain range, the Serra da Estrela, is famous for its breathtaking waterfalls, turquoise lakes, terraced hillsides and challenging bike paths amid vast woods. In winter especially, tourists from all over northern Europe flock to the sunny Serra, a thinly populated pl...

The long reach of the Spanish Inquisition Walk into a Portuguese butcher shop and you may find a five-century-old blood-sausage delicacy called botifarro de marrano. To taste it is to endure the dread of Jewish existence. The marrano looks like an ordinary pork sausage. To the inexpert tongue, it may even taste like pork. But it’s not. It’s...

A Spanish odyssey: Digging up Sephardi roots Almost two years on, it’s time to examine a much-talked-about law meant to right a historical wrong for exiled Sephardim and offer them Spanish citizenship.