BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The Israeli embassy in Argentina spread a message of support for its host country’s national team at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, despite the cancelled friendly match between Israel and Argentina. The delegation posted on social media a video saying that they “will be waiting for ´Lío´…” referring to team…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentina’s national soccer team canceled this week’s friendly match with Israel after pressure from the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. After two months of pressure against the match with Israel, the Argentinian team’s players late on Tuesday announced the cancellation of the match scheduled to be held on Saturday night…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentine Jews said they will take legal action against a history teacher who praised Adolf Hitler to her students at a Catholic school — and was then revealed to be working also as an erotic dancer. Denise Yanet Evequoz was banned from teaching last week at the Jesus Maestro high school near…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Two-time soccer world champion Argentina will travel to Israel to play a friendly match between the two national teams despite pressure from BDS activists. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, which launched a global campaign against the match including sending letters to Argentine sports figures, so far has…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A boycott campaign is threatening the friendly soccer match between the national teams of Israel and Argentina. The boycott campaign sponsored by BDS Argentina is using the motto “Argentina don’t go” to Israel, or #ArgentinaNoVayas. BDS stands for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. Argentina’s national soccer team,…
(JTA) — Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will go to trial over accusations that she covered up the alleged involvement of senior Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. Eleven other former government officials also will be tried on charges involving the cover-up and abuse of power, a federal…
The opening of Alejo Moguillansky’s new film, “The Little Match Girl,” does the audience the unusual courtesy of setting forth a catalog of the attractions to come. “There is an orchestra playing some insane music. There is a donkey. There is a little girl named Cleo,” a narrator intones. “There are a lot of pianos….
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