First Jewish university in South America to open in Buenos Aires next year
The school will confer diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in subjects ranging from Jewish and religious studies to ethics to ancient manuscripts
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Fast Forward Buenos Aires to rename subway station after Jewish woman who famously stood up to sex traffickers
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Fast Forward ‘Wounds that never heal’: 5 reflections from Buenos Aires on the 30th anniversary of the city’s Israeli embassy bombing
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Culture In a delightful new Purim film, Esther is a secret agent in Argentina
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Yiddish World Recalling the revolt against a Yiddish theater in Buenos Aires
In Buenos Aires, where I spent the first 30 years of my life, every public school student has heard of Boulogne Sur Mer, a small town in France, where the Argentine national hero Jose San Martin spent the last years of his life. Boulogne Sur Mer is also a street in Buenos Aires where even…
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Fast Forward Kosher Food Stand Opens In Iconic Buenos Aires Soccer Stadium
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Twenty years after the inauguration of the first Kosher McDonalds outside Israel, Buenos Aires will be home to a kosher fast food stand – in a soccer stadium. The stand will open next week in the Boca Juniors’ “Bombonera” stadium, a city landmark. Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona played for the…
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