Juan Melamed
By Juan Melamed
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Fast Forward Latin America’s biggest online retailer says it reduced antisemitic products by 89% this year
Mercado Libre worked with the Latin American Jewish Congress on the initiative
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Fast Forward Patagonia’s first new synagogue in over 40 years reveals a growing Argentine-Jewish community
There are no reliable estimates of the number of Jews living in Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region. But there are more than communal leaders realized
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Fast Forward Argentina investigates Iranian-owned plane on suspicion of terrorism activity, stoking fear amongst Jewish groups
The president of one group wrote in an op-ed that “the shadow of terrorism extends over Latin America"
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Fast Forward ‘Wounds that never heal’: 5 reflections from Buenos Aires on the 30th anniversary of the city’s Israeli embassy bombing
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — In the center of this city, promptly at 2:50 p.m. local time on Thursday, a siren called out. The sound of the bells also came from the Mater Admirabilies church, in front of the former location of the city’s Israeli embassy, on the corner of Arroyo and Suipacha streets. A minute…
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Fast Forward A new kind of gap year: Israel allows a team of young Argentine Jews to play in its pro soccer league
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentina is home to one of the most high-level amateur Jewish sports leagues in the world. Normally the young Argentine athletes who play in it, representing various Jewish community centers from different cities, are rivals on the field. But this season, 18 of them came together to play on one team…
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Fast Forward Stolen Anne Frank statue recovered in Buenos Aires, will get rededication ceremony
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The Anne Frank statue stolen in Buenos Aires was recovered less than a day after the robbery, Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta announced on Friday night. Police found the statue, a replica of one in Amsterdam, in a squatter shanty town near the center of the city. Rodriguez Larreta said that he…
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Fast Forward Vandals steal Anne Frank statue in Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Vandals have stolen this city’s memorial to Anne Frank in what Jewish leaders are calling a crime likely motivated by the value of the statue’s metals, not antisemitism. The Netherlands’ embassy in Buenos Aires tweeted an image of the statue’s spot on Friday alongside a message condemning the robbery. Police have…
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Fast Forward Argentina’s Córdoba province is known for its sense of humor. A new virtual Jewish museum celebrates that.
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jews of Córdoba, Argentina’s second-largest Jewish community, were on track to do what so many other communities around the world have done in recent years: Open a museum devoted to showcasing local Jewish life and history. But COVID presented an array of logistical and financial…
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