JTA Staff
By JTA Staff
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News Miguel Lifschitz, 65, Socialist Argentine Politician Who Declined Early COVID Vaccine
(JTA) — Miguel Lifschitz served as mayor of Argentina’s third-most populous city and later as governor of Santa Fe province, receiving millions of votes during his career as a Socialist politician. As a well-connected political figure, Lifschitz likely could have taken a coronavirus vaccine months ago. In February, Argentina’s health minister resigned amid reports that…
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News Mauro Viale 73 – Popular Argentine Television Host
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Early in his journalism career, Mauricio Goldfarb changed his name to Mauro Viale, a shift many understood as an indication of the difficulty of achieving professional success in Argentina for someone with such an obviously Jewish name. Mauro was his nickname among school friends; Viale was a street…
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Fast Forward Argentina mourns 21-year-old son of Buenos Aires rabbi who died in Meron disaster
(JTA) — A 21-year-old yeshiva student from Argentina was among the 45 people to die in the Lag b’Omer disaster in Israel last week. Abraham Daniel Embon attended Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem. His father, Daniel, is a rabbi at Sucath David Community Center, an Orthodox institution in Buenos Aires. Many of Argentina’s leading Jewish…
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News Alberto Sonsol, 63, Legendary Uruguayan Sportscaster Who Once Said ‘Baruch Hashem’ On The Air
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Alberto Sonsol Cohen was one of the most popular sports commentators in Uruguay. For four decades he covered baseball games and soccer matches for some of the largest media outlets in the country, including the national broadcaster TNU. In 2018, Jews across the border in Argentina were disappointed…
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News Ernesto Teicher, 76, Real Estate Developer And Jewish Community Builder
(JTA) — Ernesto Bernardo Teicher was a builder — both of buildings in the Argentinean city of Cordoba, and of its Jewish institutions. Teicher was one of the leading real estate developers in Cordoba, the second-most populous city in the country. He was also a former president of JCC Centro Union Israelita and the local…
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News Andres Abt, 47, First Jewish Mayor Of A District In Uruguay’s Capital Montevideo
(JTA) — The first Jewish mayor of a district in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo died after two weeks battling COVID-19. Andres Abt died on March 12 at the age of 47. Two days later, his funeral procession to the Jewish cemetery in Montevideo stopped by the Torre Ejecutiva, the headquarters of the federal government,…
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News What Israel has learned from its battle with COVID-19
This Q&A is adapted from one of four public conversations about the future of Israel being held every Wednesday at noon ET in a collaboration between JTA and the Israel Democracy Institute in the lead-up to Israel’s March 23 elections. The program is being funded by the Marcus Foundation. To register for the upcoming sessions,…
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Fast Forward Latin America’s largest online retailer is removing anti-Semitic objects from its site
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Mercado Libre, Latin America’s largest online retailer, is purging anti-Semitic objects it previously listed for sale from its store. The company is removing books such as “Mein Kampf” and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” in addition to other Nazi coins, posters and memorabilia. On Feb. 11, the retailer…
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