(JTA) — In January 2015, Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff was stuck in Buenos Aires when his phone rang. He’d been planning a trip to New York but a storm had canceled all flights, and Polakoff, the rabbi of Cordoba, a province in central Argentina, was cooling his heels at his sister’s house. A woman he didn’t know…
An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center was apparently murdered, an official investigating the case said on Thursday. Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment 13 months ago….
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentinian President Mauricio Macri met with the daughters of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a year after the lawman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Nisman’s daughters, Iara and Kala, went to Macri’s personal weekend house, called Los Abrojos. Sunday’s meeting with Macri is…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A trial in absentia could revitalize the AMIA case, the new head of the investigative unit looking into the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish center said. Mario Cimadevilla, a lawyer and former senator, has been tasked with reactivating the investigation into the bombing of the AMIA community centet and…
Former Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said that Iran was responsible for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires while he was negotiating with Tehran. The admission was captured on secretly-recorded telephone conversations which were released on Friday by the Argentinean radio station Mitre. In the leaked recordings of conversations with…
Argentina’s new government will not appeal a court’s decision to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating a deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, a government source said on Friday, putting the long-running controversy to rest. President Mauricio Macri took office on Thursday. Former leader Cristina Fernandez had said she…
The newly elected president of Argentina said he will cancel the agreement signed with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as he vowed during the campaign. “We will propose to the Congress to cancel the pact with Iran as we promised in the campaign,” Mauricio Macri…
An Orthodox Jew will head the Argentine Jewish political umbrella for the first time in its 80-year history. Ariel Cohen Sabban was elected Nov. 19 with 52 percent of the vote to 44 percent for the incumbent, Julio Schlosser. He will start his three-year term on Dec. 15. “Not only a president was elected, but…
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