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In another footnote to Jewish his tory, the Spanish government last week issued a decree under which Madrid's Jewish community was officially registered under Spain's religious-liberty law. Passed two years ago, it allowed the public practice of non-Catholic religions. To all intents and purposes, Jews have enjoyed tolerance in Spain under the constitution of 1869, which proclaimed limited religious freedom, and under the 1966 law. All the same, last week's decree marked the first time since Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, during the Inquisition, that they had been officially and formally granted the right to religious freedom by the Spanish state.