JTA Staff
By JTA Staff
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Fast Forward The top 10 Jewish sports moments of 2021
(JTA) — The clock has run out on 2021, and in the world of Jewish sports, it’s been an exciting year. From a very Jewish World Series to inspiring performances in the Olympics and Paralympics, Jewish athletes and teams accomplished impressive feats across sports and around the world. For the Jewish Sport Report, we scoured…
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Fast Forward Thieves caught trying to take over 200 Jewish headstones at Argentine Jewish cemetery
(JTA) — Local Jewish leaders are fuming about repeated security breaches at a large Jewish cemetery in the Buenos Aires area. Just before Yom Kippur last week, three vandals were caught trying to make off with 223 of the cemetery’s gravestones — the third such robbery in the past month. Over 100 headstones were smashed…
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Fast Forward To mark 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, Argentina turns to a Jewish cemetery tradition
(JTA) — The Argentines who placed stones in front of the Casa Rosada government building this week were marking a grim milestone in their country’s COVID-19 experience: crossing the 100,000-death threshold. They were also echoing a Jewish ritual whose telltale signs — small rocks perched atop gravestones — can be seen in any Jewish cemetery…
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Fast Forward Leading Chilean Presidential Candidate Daniel Jadue Faces Accusations Of Antisemitism
(JTA) — Chile’s lower house of parliament asked leading presidential candidate Daniel Jadue to deny that he is antisemitic in the wake of some of his past statements on Jews and Israel. Jadue, the grandson of Palestinian immigrants who runs the Communist Party of Chile, has taken criticism after an image from his high school…
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Fast Forward Baruj Plavnick, 69, rabbi whose synagogue was used as vaccination center, dies of COVID
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Bernardo Javier “Baruj” Plavnick, 69, the Argentine rabbi who opened his Buenos Aires synagogue for use as a vaccination center, died of COVID-19 on May 20. Pardes, the community founded by Plavnick in 1992, announced in February that it was establishing a vaccination center inside the synagogue. Some…
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Fast Forward A haredi Orthodox ‘City of Torah’ is planned in Mexico, first in Latin America
(JTA) — The foundation stone has been laid for a “City of Torah” in Mexico, the first village in Latin America to be comprised almost exclusively of haredi Orthodox Jews. The village, under construction near Ixtapan de la Sal, a small town about 75 miles southwest of Mexico City, will begin with 40 houses and…
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News Miguel Lifschitz, 65, Socialist Argentine Politician Who Declined Early COVID Vaccine
(JTA) — Miguel Lifschitz served as mayor of Argentina’s third-most populous city and later as governor of Santa Fe province, receiving millions of votes during his career as a Socialist politician. As a well-connected political figure, Lifschitz likely could have taken a coronavirus vaccine months ago. In February, Argentina’s health minister resigned amid reports that…
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News Mauro Viale 73 – Popular Argentine Television Host
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Early in his journalism career, Mauricio Goldfarb changed his name to Mauro Viale, a shift many understood as an indication of the difficulty of achieving professional success in Argentina for someone with such an obviously Jewish name. Mauro was his nickname among school friends; Viale was a street…
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