Juan Melamed
By Juan Melamed
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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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Fast Forward Jewish businessman offers to buy and blow up 800-pound eagle and swastika crest from Nazi ship
(JTA) — PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (JTA) — A Jewish businessman has offered to buy an 800-pound eagle and swastika crest from a former Nazi ship that is sitting in a Uruguay warehouse and explode it into “a thousand pieces.” A private expedition recovered the 6-foot-tall Nazi swastika and eagle crest in 2006. It had…
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