The most prominent Jew in Latin America wore a crucifix at a recent campaign event. Is that kosher?
People are divided about Claudia Sheinbaum, the Jewish woman aiming to become Mexico's next president, donning a rosary
People are divided about Claudia Sheinbaum, the Jewish woman aiming to become Mexico's next president, donning a rosary
Mercado Libre worked with the Latin American Jewish Congress on the initiative
Jews are far from the only group to practice consecutive days of prayer and mourning following a death
Call it a field of Latin American Jewish dreams. Last Sunday, hundreds of children in bright team colors surged across a sun-drenched Miami sports field as their families from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil cheered them on. They were there for Miami’s annual Hebraica Maccabi Games, which for four decades has brought together…
When Clarita Kassin and her family fled the violence and kidnappings in their native Colombia in the late 70’s to settle in Miami, she wanted to recreate the close-knit Jewish community she left behind in Bogota. “As Colombian Jews we wanted to form a social club,” Kassin said. “But my late husband Roberto said why…
Samuel Hayon, a Venezuelan living in Miami, was shocked when he went to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital to try and get the COVID-19 shot in February. “I just ran into the entire Hebraica Israeli!” he said, referring to Caracas’s Jewish community. Hayon had noticed a trend that would only grow in the coming weeks and…
(JTA) — In a genetic study of 6,589 people from five Latin American countries, about a quarter displayed traces of what may be Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Geneticist Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque and his colleagues published their findings last week in Nature Communications magazine, in an article titled “Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) – Jewish institutions in Argentina have launched a campaign against British singer Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman. Waters’ Us +Them tour has been traveling around Latin America for the last month. Waters participated in an event of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel in Buenos Aires on Friday,…
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