Dina Siegel Vann is Director of the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs (BILLA).
Dina Siegel Vann
By Dina Siegel Vann
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Community What Should We Make Of Netanyahu’s Upcoming Visit To Latin America ?
Relations between Latin America and Israel are about to get an important boost. For the first time since the founding of the Jewish state in May 1948, its sitting prime minister will visit the region. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicks off his long-planned tour of Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. The goal of this…
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Opinion Justice Delayed and Denied to Victims of Argentina Jewish Center Terror Bombing
A powerful bomb destroyed the seven-story building in downtown Buenos Aires 19 years ago this week. Amidst the rubble of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid Association (AMIA) — the main Argentine Jewish organization — were 85 dead, Jews and non-Jews ranging in age from 18 to 73. Another 300 were injured. The country’s top political…
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Opinion America’s Hemisphere Of Interest
It seems that issues central to the American foreign policy agenda today are unequivocally and insistently pursued everywhere — except in Latin America. As Secretary of State Colin Powell stated at a briefing to Congress last February, America’s “top” priorities of a “more serious nature” — the consolidation of democratic regimes, the guaranteeing of open…
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