Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa compared the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center which killed 85 people to “NATO bombings of Libya.” Correa made the remarks Tuesday during a television interview with Argentina’s C5N news channel. Correa was in the country to receive an award from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata. He made the…
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry rejected a request from the Jewish community and survivors of the AMIA Jewish center bombing for information about current negotiations with Iran over the case. The ministry’s attorney, Agustin Medrano, said late last week in refusing the request made through the judiciary that “as a process of diplomatic negotiations between States, the…
The “Bread of Memory” campaign to commemorate the 1994 bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires won the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award. The award to Ogilvy & Mather Argentina, which developed the campaign, was announced by Yahoo! Argentina on Nov. 9. The campaign launched on July 2012 to commemorate the bombing…
Three days of negotiations between Argentina and Iran over the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center have been “very positive,” Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced. The statement came Wednesday at the Government House after three days of meetings between authorities of both nations at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “ “The…
The Argentine National Library has canceled its program “The Ethical Trial of the Israeli Occupation and Colonization of Palestine.” The Oct. 30 program was being organized by the Argentine-Palestinian Solidarity Committee. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was to be on the jury of the so-called trial. The library confirmed on Friday…
After experiences in Argentina and Brazil, a Limmud experience will arrive in Mexico. More than 60 presenters from across the Jewish spectrum – including, a secular rabbi with Orthodox and Conservative colleagues from the Ashkenazi and Sefardi communities, will engage an expected 300 Jews of diverse affiliations at the first-ever “Limmud Mexico.” The program is…
Israel expressed “disappointment” over the Argentinean decision to accept an Iranian invitation to bilateral talks. “The Government of Israel received with great disappointment the news about the Argentine acceptance of a meeting with the Islamic Republic of Iran on a Foreign Ministers level. Iran does not come with clean hands to this dialogue about global…
When the Sao Paulo Hebraica Sports Club and Community Center in Brazil opened the Aleph School earlier this month, it welcomed 450 students and had 120 more on the waiting list for next year. Hebraica, which is similar to an American Jewish community center, has reached 24,000 members and has a $30 million budget. Meanwhile,…
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