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…
Sorry, no Jewish werewolves for you! Remember that article about the Argentinian president adopting a Jewish boy to stop him from turning into a werewolf? The one that seemed too ridiculous to be true? Well, turns out that it was bogus. At least, according to The Guardian. The drama started when President Cristina Kirchner announced…
Argentina’s president adopted a Jewish godson under a law intended to counteract an old legend about werewolves. President Christina Fernandez described in seven tweets her meeting with her new godson, Yair Tawil, a member of a Chabad-Lubavitch family. He was adopted as a godson under a law passed in the 1920s. The law was passed…
A campaign against Israeli backpackers has been launched in the Patagonian region of Argentina, where Israelis make up about 10 percent of the lucrative tourist trade. Posters appeared Monday in the city of Bariloche, a major tourism center located in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in which most of the stores have signs in…
(JTA) — While setting up a synagogue at the American naval base where she volunteers, Ahuvah (Amanda) Gipson made something of a bitter-sweet discovery. Rifling through a storage area at the sprawling American-Spanish military complex Naval Station Rota in 2012, Gipson, a former naval outreach professional who now teaches off base, found three dusty Torah…
A statue of the Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank was dedicated in Buenos Aires. The statue, a replica of the one located in Amsterdam, where Anne and her family were hidden during World War II, was inaugurated Wednesday in the Kingdom of Netherlands Square in the Puerto Madero district, a popular tourist area. The Buenos…
At least a dozen headstones were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery in Argentina. The headstones were upended and damaged at the cemetery in Santiago del Estero, a city of nearly 250,000 located about 620 miles northeast of Buenos Aires. The attack, which is believed to have occurred over the weekend, was discovered on Monday by…
The Argentine National Ministry of Health signed an agreement to serve kosher food to patients that request it. The agreement signed Wednesday by Minister of Health Juan Luis Manzur, and the Argentinian Jewish political umbrella DAIA creates the service that will be available on demand in every public hospital in the country. Beginning Thursday the…
די ווילנער דאָקטוירים יעקבֿ וויגאָדסקי און צמח שאַבאַד זענען אויך געווען געזעלשאַפֿטלעכע טוער.
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