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  • Panama’s grand rabbi, Zion Levy, dies

    November 28, 2008 2:39pm

    Panama’s long-time Grand Rabbi Zion Levy died in Israel at the age of 83.

  • Group seeks U.N. official’s ouster

    November 26, 2008 7:46pm

    The Argentine branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center called for the dismissal of the U.N.’s General Assembly president because of his recent anti-Israeli comments.

  • Israeli tourist raped in Guatemala

    October 28, 2008 4:26pm

    An Israeli tourist was raped outside of a popular destination in Guatemala.

  • New Torah scroll sparks Nicaraguans

    December 19, 2007 10:00am

    The arrival of the first Torah in Nicaragua in 28 years is rekindling Jewish life in the turbulent Central American country and sparking discussion of building a new Jewish community center.

  • Panama’s Jews, Arabs coexist

    July 22, 2007 9:00am

    Unlike other parts of the world where devoutly practicing Jews and Muslims have come into conflict, in Panama the two are almost symbiotic.

  • Who is a Jew?’ in Nicaragua

    May 6, 2007 9:00am

    Bitter divisions over who is a Jew threaten to split Nicaragua’s tiny Jewish community.

  • Teens build for poor in Nicaragua

    March 1, 2007 10:00am

    Aching from lugging cinder blocks and not having seen a flush toilet in days, a group of Jewish teenagers from the New York City suburbs could have been forgiven for complaining about building simple houses in a rural Nicaraguan outpost. But the only comp

  • Sandinista leader alienates local Jews

    February 27, 2007 10:00am

    It has taken Nicaragua’s new leftist President Daniel Ortega less than two months in office to alienate the country’s tiny Jewish community.

  • Embassy move upsets Costa Rica’s Jews

    August 23, 2006 9:00am

    Costa Rica’s Jewish community reacted with disappointment, resignation and a bit of anger to the country’s decision to move its embassy in Israel out of Jerusalem.

  • Israelis help farms, diplomacy in Nicaragua

    October 2, 2005 9:00am

    A pair of Israeli agronomists are helping Nicaragua make gradual improvements to their oudated farming practices. Another outgrowth of their hard work has been a modest improvement in ties between Israel and Nicaragua.