JTA Staff
By JTA Staff
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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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Fast Forward Argentina mourns 21-year-old son of Buenos Aires rabbi who died in Meron disaster
(JTA) — A 21-year-old yeshiva student from Argentina was among the 45 people to die in the Lag b’Omer disaster in Israel last week. Abraham Daniel Embon attended Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem. His father, Daniel, is a rabbi at Sucath David Community Center, an Orthodox institution in Buenos Aires. Many of Argentina’s leading Jewish…
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News Alberto Sonsol, 63, Legendary Uruguayan Sportscaster Who Once Said ‘Baruch Hashem’ On The Air
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Alberto Sonsol Cohen was one of the most popular sports commentators in Uruguay. For four decades he covered baseball games and soccer matches for some of the largest media outlets in the country, including the national broadcaster TNU. In 2018, Jews across the border in Argentina were disappointed…
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News Ernesto Teicher, 76, Real Estate Developer And Jewish Community Builder
(JTA) — Ernesto Bernardo Teicher was a builder — both of buildings in the Argentinean city of Cordoba, and of its Jewish institutions. Teicher was one of the leading real estate developers in Cordoba, the second-most populous city in the country. He was also a former president of JCC Centro Union Israelita and the local…
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