BELMONTE, Portugal (JTA) — To a casual observer, the weekend routines of the Jewish community of this placid town of about 6,000 in eastern Portugal are deceptively normal. There are Shabbat ...

Five years earlier, a winery in the same town produced what was said to be Portugal’s first kosher-certified wine in centuries. And in 2010, the town of Belmonte began hosting an annual kosher ...

In the Serra da Estrela region - the mountain chain that forms the highest point in mainland Portugal - the village of ...

Portugal’s deep-rooted history stretches ... with Roman and medieval influences evident throughout. Belmonte is renowned as the birthplace of Pedro Álvares Cabral, the navigator who discovered ...