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One of the fake Israeli passports used by an Iranian national to enter Buenos Aires in March 2019. Source: Instagram.

Two Iranians arrested entering Argentina with fake Israeli passports

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Two Iranians were arrested in Buenos Aires traveling on forged Israeli passports, just a day before the 27th anniversary of the March 17, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. The male and...

Argentine chief rabbi: It’s not clear attack was anti-Semitic

The condition of Chief Rabbi of Argentina Gabriel Davidovich is improving after he was badly beaten during a home invasion on Monday. A group of burglars entered his home in Buenos Aires on Monday morning. His wife...

Argentina’s chief rabbi beaten at home in Buenos Aires in suspected anti-Semitic attack

Argentina’s Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich sustained serious injuries on Monday when a group of burglars entered his home in Buenos Aires on Monday morning. His wife was tied up during the incident, according to the...
Remains of the AMIA Jewish center after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: La Nación via Wikimedia Commons.

Crimes go unpunished in Argentina

For more than a decade, Alberto Nisman had been investigating the worst terrorist attack ever committed on Argentine soil: the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85...
Unveiling a monument honoring former Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman are (from right) former KKL Argentina president Ulises Taitelbaum and his wife, Maria; Miguel Tohimaer; KKL Argentina president Hernáan Hilu; KKL-JNF vice chairman Hernán Felman; Nisman’s mother, Sara Garfunkel; Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein; AMIA president Agustin Igdal; DAIA president Jorge Knoblovits; and Argentinian Ambassador to Israel H.E. Mariano Caucino. Credit: KKL-JNF.

Israel unveils memorial to Argentine prosecutor killed seeking justice for bombing

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Jewish and Israeli leaders on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s murder by unveiling a monument in his memory at the Ben Shemen forest in central Israel. The monument in...
The rock group Pink Floyd's Roger Waters. Credit: Jethro/Wikimedia Commons.

Argentinian Jewry protests BDS advocate Waters’ tour

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Argentina’s Jews are protesting the Latin America tour of former Pink Floyd member and pro-BDS advocate Roger Waters. A day before his concert on Saturday, Waters partook in a pro-BDS event in Buenos Aires. “We must insist to...
Jorge Zak, vice president of Taglit in South America, addresses the young audience at a memorial for the 85 people killed at the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2018. Credit: Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Remembering the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, 24 years later

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In an event organized by Taglit, better known in the United States as Birthright Israel, 80 young Argentinians gathered on the rooftop of the Hotel Rut Daniel in Tel Aviv on July 18 for...

‘Birthright for Moms’ to lead trips for Spanish-speakers

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Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project is meeting in Buenos Aires as part of its new focus on Spanish-speakers. The group is set to announce during the meeting on Monday and Tuesday for 100 Spanish-speaking women from...