Uruguay elects a left-wing president who is not anti-Israel, a rarity in Latin America
Yamandu Orsi said he was pleasantly surprised by his visit to Israel in September 2023
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Vandalized In Uruguay
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Uruguayan Holocaust memorial rededicated last year was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti minimizing the Holocaust. “They have vandalized us again. What’s going on?” Montevideo Mayor Carlos Varela tweeted along with photos of the vandalized memorial. “We call for sanity, tolerance and peace,” he added. Unveiled in 1994, the site in the country’s…
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Fast Forward Uruguay Pastor Raises Money To Plant 1,000 Trees In Israel
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — An evangelical Christian pastor from Uruguay fulfilled his promise to plant 1,000 trees in the Jewish state. One year ago, after planting a tree with the Keren Kayemet Leisrael organization while on a visit to Israel with a group of Latin American pastors, Jorge Marquez vowed to raise the money to…
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Breaking News Israeli Hardware Powers $20m Surveillance Center in Uruguay
(JTA) — Uruguay opened a $20 million video surveillance monitoring center near the tourism capital of Punta del Este with major support from Israeli technology. Those on hand for the launch Tuesday in the city of Maldonado included the defense minister of Uruguay, the mayor of Maldonado, the Israeli ambassador to Uruguay, and representatives of…
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Breaking News Maid Attacked by ‘Jews Have To Die’ Maniac in Uruguay
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Uruguayan woman suffered injuries to her face and body after being attacked by a man who yelled anti-Semitic slurs at her. Mirta, who is not Jewish, met the aggressor on the street close to the building where she has been working as a housemaid for eight years in a building in…
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Breaking News Uruguay Killer Says ‘Allah Ordered’ Him To Murder Jew
Police in Uruguay confirmed the deadly attack on a Jewish businessman in the small town of Paysandu was motivated by anti-Semitism. “I killed a Jew following Allah’s order,” the alleged assailant, 35,a substitute teacher identified by the initials C.O.E.L., told the officers on Wednesday, according to El Observador newspaper. During the Tuesday night attack, he…
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News My Lonely Passover in Uruguay
My college study-abroad term in Montevideo, Uruguay, left me with reasonable fluency in Spanish, a fear of slugs in sandwiches, the knowledge of more than a dozen soccer chants — and a deep, visceral love for the Jewish holiday of Passover and its accompanying festive Seder meal. The year before I lived in Uruguay, I’d…
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Breaking News Uruguay’s New President Has Close Jewish Ties
Uruguay elected a president who has twice traveled to Israel and who has an open dialogue with the country’s Jewish community. The ruling leftist coalition candidate, Tabare Vazquez, was confirmed as president Monday with 53.6 percent of the vote in the second round of national elections, beating rightist Luis Lacallae Pou who garnered 41.1 percent…
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