Diego Melamed
By Diego Melamed
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires
Eugenia Unger was a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires
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News Carlos Escude, 72, Driven To Judaism By Argentine Economic Crisis
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — In April, as much of the world introduced limits on movement and commerce in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Argentinean political theorist Carlos Escude waged a one-man protest outside his home in Buenos Aires. In a video that the newspaper Perfil described as “bizarre,” Escude can be…
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Fast Forward Nazi Salutes at Argentina Graduation Sparks Brawl With Jewish Students
– Students attending a German-language school in Argentina were accused of offending Jewish counterparts at a resort while wearing fake Hitler mustaches and performing Nazi salutes. The incident, which escalated into a brawl, occurred Wednesday at a night club at Bariloche, 800 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, according to Argentina’s National Institute Against Racism, Discrimination…
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Fast Forward Final AMIA Bombing Victim in Buenos Aires Identified 22 Years After Attack
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The only unidentified fatality of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center here has been named. Augusto Daniel Jesus was identified as the victim with more than 99.99 percent certainty based on an analysis of DNA taken from the body and from his mother, according to the Argentina government’s AMIA…
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The Schmooze Argentina’s Very Jewish Oscar Nominee
(JTA) — If Damian Szifron’s “Wild Tales” (“Relatos Salvajes” in Spanish) wins an Academy Award on February 22 — it was nominated last week for Best Foreign Film — it will be Argentina’s third Oscar and the first for a film directed by an Argentine Jew. The film, which combines humor, suspense and violence, consists…
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The Schmooze ‘Werewolf’ Adoption Story Was 100% Kosher — Really!
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman (JTA) — Last week, JTA published an unusual item about a werewolf legend that generated headlines worldwide. The item was about Yair Tawil, the first Jewish man adopted as a godson by Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The adoption took place under a longstanding custom that presidents adopt the seventh son…
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The Schmooze 6 Jewish Things About the World Cup
Colombia’s Coach Jose Pekerman is among the Jewish participants in the World Cup/Getty Images (JTA) — Israel’s not in the World Cup, and none of the star players is Jewish. But never fear: We still managed to compile a list of six Jewish things about Brazil 2014. The coach: Jose Pekerman, the coach of Colombia’s…
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Opinion Pope Francis’s Rabbi No. 2
(JTA) — Pope Francis is bringing along not one but two Argentinean rabbis on his trip to the Holy Land. The pope’s close friendship with Rabbi Abraham Skorka is well known. Skorka even wrote a book with the then archbishop of Buenos Aires. Skorka told JTA that he would be with the pope “all the…
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