Pope Francis meets 25 families that saved Jews during the Holocaust; lecture about Baruch Spinoza; new book of children’s stories written by senior citizens.Read More
Paraguayan president visits Israel; Jewish community of Uruguay celebrates its 100th year.Read More
For the first time in eight years an Argentinian president honors the victims of the YIVO building attack in 1994; Sofia Guterman, the mother of a young girl who was killed in the attack, spoke in the name of the victims’ families.Read More
A mysterious bunker — was this Hitler’s hiding place? Argentinian spy condemns previous President’s bad investigation of the attack on the Jewish community center.Read More
Latin American conference on Jewish music; 100 Argentinian artists record a song in memory of the victims of the attack on the AMIA building.Read More
Anonymous Argentinian buys Hitler’s jacket and other Nazi objects for $676,000; elections in the Jewish community are postponed due to accusations of forged membership lists.Read More
Lectures and a concert during an evening honoring YIVO’s founders captivate the audience; Jorge Luis Borges, whose 30th death anniversary is being commemorated this year, understood Yiddish.Read More
Is the new Peruvian president Kuczynski really Jewish? Well-known affluent Jew is investigated in connection with a prostitution ring.Read More
First meeting of a commission to research Yiddish Theater in Argentina; terrorism conference demonstrates Israeli technology used to fight terrrorism.Read More
Spanish historian Mario Escobar speaks about his novel, “Auschwitz Lullaby”; Jewish community conducts seminar about terrorism; US is ready to help investigate 1994 terror attack and Nisman’s death.Read More