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Terrorism / Diaspora / Islamists / South America

Argentina Busts Terror Cell Plotting Attacks on Jewish Community

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

"We are going to get rid of each and every one of these criminals who intend to sow fear in Argentines and they will pay," says Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / South America

Support for Israel Grows: Argentine Senator Pledges to Back Embassy Move to Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

Argentine Senator pledges support for moving embassy to Jerusalem, echoing new President's commitment.

Terrorism / Iran / Antisemitism / Diaspora / Hezbollah / South America

Argentina Asks Interpol to Arrest Iranian Minister over AMIA Attack

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Earlier this month, the Court of Cassation in Buenos Aires issued a ruling blaming Tehran for the 1994 bombing.

Terrorism / Iran / South America

Argentina Court Names Iran Responsible for 1994 AMIA Bombing

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The ruling enables victims’ families to file suit against the Islamic Republic.

News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

84 Jews from 7 Countries in South America Make New Homes in Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The new arrivals came from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.

Featured / South America / Judaism / Coronavirus

Cremation of Argentina’s Jewish Coronavirus Victim Sparks Concerns

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Orthodox Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the dean of the Israel’s Ohr Torah Stone network of institutions, said while cremation is normally considered a “desecration” in Judaism, if it helps save a life during this time it would be “a mitzvah that the deceased is doing posthumously.”

Europe / South America / Holocaust

‘Money Looted from Jewish Victims:’ Simon Wiesenthal Center Obtains Documents on Nazis in Argentina and Swiss Banks’ Involvement

By Benjamin Brown / TPS

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) has obtained and revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis who had been living in Argentina, many of whom held bank accounts with the predecessor of Credit Suisse.

Featured / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / Business and Economy / Media / Germany / Holocaust

Germany Investigates Website Selling Zyklon B Peanuts, Führer Wine

By JNi.Media

Other products include SS linen, busts of Hitler and of other top Nazis, and knockoffs of liquor brands.

Israel / News Briefs / South America / Sports

Argentinian Team Cursed for Boycotting Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Since cancelling the game with Israel the Argentinian team has met with a series of unfortunate incidents.

Featured / Politics / Europe / Jerusalem / South America / Sports

Liberman: Argentina Couldn't Beat Iceland Because They Didn't Practice in Jerusalem

By JNi.Media

Argentina, which plays in Group D, will be playing against Croatia and Nigeria next.

Featured / Palestinian Authority / Boycott / BDS / Sports

PA Soccer Chief’s Bid for FIFA to Sanction ‎Israel Backfires

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

PA Football Association head Jibril Rajoub not only fails to get soccer’s world governing body to suspend Israel, but ends up facing disciplinary proceedings over his incitement against Israel.

Jerusalem / Central America / South America

Netanyahu to Latin American Diplomats: ‘Move Your Embassies to Jerusalem’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Netanyahu plans on conducting a regional summit in Guatemala in November, to which all Latin American leaders would be invited.

Terrorism / Government / Iran

Netanyahu: Terrorists Can ‘Smell Weakness’ As Well As Strength

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"No continent, no country is safe from terrorism. We must stand against them together, to build a solid wall of the civilized world against the flood of radicalism."

US / Politics / Government / Business and Economy / Diaspora / Science and Tech / Central America / South America

Netanyahu Departs for Historic Trip to South America

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"This visit will ... will serve as an additional prop to support Israel‘s standing on the international stage."

Featured / The Muqata

Iran's Islamic Regime Got a Taste of What it Deserves

By JoeSettler

The Iranian people and the rest of the world deserve to be freed from the clutches of the terror-supporting Islamic regime of Iran.

Featured / IDF & Security / US / History / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Hotshot Star Wars Pilot Oscar Isaac to Star in Eichmann Capture Movie

By JNi.Media

Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961, and he was executed on May 31, 1962.

Headline / Op-Eds

World Shrugs as Hezbollah Prepares Massive Civilian Deaths

By Noah Beck

Hezbollah knows that civilian killed by Israel are a strategic asset. They reportedly offered reduced-price housing to Shiite families who allowed them to store rocket launchers in their homes

Terrorism / Politics / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Argentine Judge Wants to Probe Former President on 1994 Jewish Center Bombing

By JNi.Media

On October 25, 2006, special prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally accused the government of Iran of directing the AMIA bombing, and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out.

News Briefs / South America / Holocaust

Eichmann’s Daughter in Law Realizes ‘Grandpa’ Is Career Killer

By JNi.Media

“Grandpa,” she argued, “wasn’t a bad person, he obeyed orders and did not personally kill anyone.”

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Aliyah / Geulah

From Argentina to Shechem: New Immigrant Joins Soldiers on Front Line

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

The Home Front Command for the first time has deployed female soldiers to guard the front lines in Shechem in Samaria.

Jewish / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah / South America

Argentinean Jews Reject Gov't Plan to Include Iran in Probe of Bombing

By Jewish Press News Desk

Argentinean Jewish community has rejected a government plan to work with Iran to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) that killed 85 people. Last Friday was the 21st anniversary of the attack, which has Iran's and Hezbollah's fingerprints but which never has been officially solved. Jewish leader, Ariel Cohen, urged the […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / South America

Argentine Prez Cristina Kirchner Doesn’t Get Why her Shylock Comment Angers Jews

By JNi.Media

The 'Shylock' is Jewish Billionaire Paul Singer, whom Kirchner has actually accused of behaving like a vulture — for insisting Argentina pay him back the $1.5 billion they owe him.

Global / News Briefs

Argentine President Indicted for Cover-Up for Iran in Bombing

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

One government official said "anti Semites and drug traffickers" are the real criminals trying to protect Iran.

Global / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Argentina Releases Nisman's Evidence of Officials' Cover-Up for Iran

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Criminal charges prepared by Alberto Nisman incriminate Argentine's president and Jewish foreign minister.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

10 Israeli Tourists Attacked in Argentina Hostel

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Earlier this week, ten Israeli tourists were violently assaulted in an anti-Semitic attack at a hostel in Argentina.

Terrorism / Global / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah / Assimilation

Argentinean President Says Nisman Did not Commit Suicide

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Iran, for the time being, has gotten away with 85 murders in the AMAI bombing in 1994.

Video of the Day

Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman

By Video of the Day

Over the years, Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman made some powerful enemies from Iran to his own country's president. He was set to testify this morning on a cover-up connected to Iran's Buenos Aires Jewish Center bombing that reached the highest levels of his own government. Nisman's body was found, shot dead, in his home.

Terrorism / Iran / News Briefs / Islamists / Hezbollah

Prosecutor Dead; Charged Pres. Involved in Argentina Jewish Center Bombing Cover-Up

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Special prosecutor in Argentine Jewish Center bombing case shot dead after asserting president's involvement in cover-up.

Global / News Briefs / Chabad

Argentina’s President Adopts Jewish Godson

By JTA

Argentina’s president Christina Fernandez has accepted an official Jewish godson for the first time in the country’s history to help counter legend of death to a seventh son. She described in seven tweets her meeting with her new godson, Yair Tawil, a member of a Chabad-Lubavitch family. He was adopted as a godson under a […]

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Rabbanit Pinto Found Alive and Well

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rabbanit Pinto was found by Buenos Aires police, alive and well on Saturday, though exhausted.

Terrorism / Israel / Politics / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

In Argentina, One Priest Worth More than 50,000 Jews

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Socialist president warns Israel to protect priest in Gaza, can't seem to find words to support 50,000 Argentine Jews.

Terrorism / Israel / Jewish / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Israeli Filmmaker Amos Gitai Making Movie about AMIA Bombing

By JTA

Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is preparing a film about the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires. The Brazilian production company Prana Films will produce the movie based on the 1994 bombing attack on the center that left 85 dead and hundreds wounded. One venue will be the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este, […]

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Argentinean Selling Nazi Symbols Ordered to Perform Community Service

By JTA

A Buenos Aires city court is requiring a vendor of Nazi souvenirs and symbols to perform community service and take a course about the Holocaust. City prosecutor Gustavo Galante collected evidence in the case with the help of the Anti-Discriminatory Division of the Federal Police. The seller, who has not been publicly named, sold Nazi […]

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Court Approves Haredi-Led Consortium to Take Over IDB Conglomerate

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Tel Aviv court Tuesday has rejected arguments from embattled billionaire Nochi Dankner and has given its stamp of approval to allow a consortium, led by a South American Haredi businessman, to take control of the mammoth IDF holding company. Dankner’s lawyers said they are considering whether to appeal the decision that accepted a creditors’ […]

Jewish / Global / News Briefs / Religion

Argentinian Rabbi Sworn into National Parliament on Tanach

By JTA

Rabbi Sergio Bergman, wearing a colorful yarmulke, was sworn in to Argentina’s National Parliament Wednesday on a Tanach when he swore the oath of office before “God, the motherland and the sacred scriptures of the Bible, the Tanach.” Bergman, the first rabbi to take office as a national legislator, was one of Argentina’s 127 newly […]

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Fundamentalists Disrupt Jewish-Catholic Kristallnacht Remembrance

By JTA

Fundamentalist Christians disrupted a joint Jewish-Christian ceremony commemorating Kristallnacht held at the Buenos Aires City´s Metropolitan Cathedral Tuesday night. The event was organized by the Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee and Bnai Brith Argentina. When the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Mario Poli, tried to start the ceremony’s liturgy of commemoration, the fundamentalist group interrupted the ceremony, praying […]

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Argentinian Rabbi Elected to Parliament

By JTA

Rabbi Sergio Bergman won a seat in the Argentina National Congress and will be the first rabbi to serve as a national lawmaker in the country. He will represent Buenos Aires City in the Lower House of the National Congress. Bergman, a Buenos Aires City lawmaker from the center-right PRO party, garnered 34.5 percent of […]

Terrorism / US / Global / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Argentina Tells Obama to Include AMIA Bombing in Iran Talks

By JTA

Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez sent out a blitz of 31 tweets to urge President Barack Obama to include the issue of the Buenos Aires Jewish Center AMIA bombing in its bilateral talks with Iran. The tweets posted Monday night from the president’s official Twitter account also mentioned the pressure that she feels from U.S. Jewish […]

Terrorism / Jewish / US / Global / Iran / News Briefs

Homeland´s New Season References Argentine Jewish Center Bombing

By JTA

The third season of the television hit “Homeland” will discuss the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. In the first episode, which is scheduled to air on Sept. 29, CIA agents agree during a meeting on a list of six terrorists who must be captured. A CIA agent presents one of the […]

Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

BOI Governor Might be Named after Yom Kippur

By Jewish Press News Desk

Following the fiascoes where Netanyahu's preferred choices for Bank of Israel governors couldn't be appointedt, the Turkel Committee vetted and approved three new candidates for the job.

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Argentinian Rabbi Wins Big in Midterm Congressional Primary Vote

By JTA

Argentina’s Rabbi Sergio Bergman won the midterm congressional primary elections, his first national test for a seat in the country’s Parliament. Bergman, who currently serves as a Buenos Aires city lawmaker for the center-right PRO Party, was the candidate who received the most votes for the lower house of the National Parliament in Sunday’s poll, […]

Terrorism / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists

Argentine Prosecutor: Iran Running Latin American Terrorist Networks

By Jewish Press Staff

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has close ties with other Latin American leaders who are friends of Iran.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Jewish Leaders Praise New Pope

By Jewish Press Staff

The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina attended Rosh HaShanah services five years ago and was outspoken in the attack against the Jewish Community Center by agents of Iran in 1994.

News Briefs / Religion

White Smoke, New Pope

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Vatican Cardinals have chosen a new pope. The winner is the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76). Bergoglio has chosen the name Francis.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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