New DNA from Argentina Jewish center bombing points to suicide attack
A new set of DNA has been identified among the 85 victims of the AMIA Buenos Aires Jewish Center attack, strengthening the hypothesis that the 1994 attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The discovery was...
Chilean Jews concerned over ‘imported’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A series of recent events in Chile have caused heightened tensions between the Jewish and Palestinian communities there, with the leader of the Jewish community warning that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being imported into...
Rio de Janeiro city square named after Shimon Peres
Copacabana Sqaure in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was renamed in honor of the late Israeli President Shimon Peres last Friday during a ceremony in the seaside city.
The ceremony was attended by Rio de Janeiro...
Mexico City mayor highlights country’s Sephardi heritage
The mayor of Mexico City praised his country’s Sephardi heritage during the opening of the global biennial Erensya summit — an initiative led by the Madrid-based Sefarad-Israel Center — on Tuesday.
“In Mexico we have...
Argentine website’s analysis of Nisman recordings wins Google journalism prize
An Argentine news outlet’s analysis of secret recordings concerning the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires won a national prize from Google Argentina and the National Forum of Professional Journalists.
The Digital...
‘You’re just there, trapped’: why one mexican woman decided to ‘self-deport,’ long before Trump
Any time a cop passed her on the road, she began shaking. When police set up checkpoints in her neighborhood, her phone buzzed with warning text messages.
She worried about getting carded at bars. Boarding...
AMIA bombing investigator Alberto Nisman was murdered, new official argentine report concludes
A forthcoming report from one of Argentina’s top security agencies will confirm that Alberto Nisman — the special prosecutor who investigated the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, in...
Mexico & moral courage: Andrés Roemer’s international sephardic leadership award ceremony
In honor of this year’s Yom Yerushalayim, The American Sephardi Federation awarded its International Sephardic Leadership Award to former Mexican Ambassador to UNESCO Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski. The event, “Mexico and Moral Courage,” was...
Venezuelan president: ‘we are the new jews’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has likened the harassment of government officials and their families outside of Venezuela to the treatment of Jews under the Nazis.
Maduro also said in comments to a televised cabinet meeting...
Pope Francis will migrate simbolically from Chiapas to Juarez
Pope Francis is expected to make immigration a major theme of his visit to Mexico. By traveling northward across Mexico, he intends to symbolically retrace the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants traveling...