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• Israeli tourists hurt in hours-long anti-Semitic attack in Argentina

  January 21, 2015 3:15pm

  Three assailants burned, robbed and beat the tourists at a hostel popular with Israelis.

• Argentina’s very Jewish Oscar nominee

  January 20, 2015 11:02am

  Meet Damian Szifron, the Jewish writer/director behind Argentina’s Academy Award nominee, “Wild Tales.”

• AMIA bombing special prosecutor shot dead

  January 19, 2015 6:49am

  Alberto Nisman was expected to reveal details of his allegations against Argentina’s top officials of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing on Monday.

• AMIA prosecutor sues Argentine president over ’94 bombing

  January 14, 2015 3:31pm

  Alberto Nisman in a federal lawsuit claimed that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner covered up for former Iranian officials accused of being involved in the deadly attack.

• Did Argentina’s president really save a Jew from becoming a werewolf?

  January 5, 2015 10:58am

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner may not actually believe in the mythical beast. But the law under which she adopted Yair Tawil as a godson is traceable to a werewolf legend imported from Russia.

• Argentina’s president adopts Jewish godson under law to counteract werewolf legend

  December 25, 2014 12:17pm

  Yair Tawil was adopted under a law passed in the 1920s to counteract an old legend that a seventh son born after six boys with no girls in between becomes a werewolf whose bite can turn others into a werewolf.

• Abbas congratulates Chile’s ‘Palestino’ soccer team

  December 24, 2014 12:24pm

  Palestine Football Club ignited a controversy earlier this year when it used the entire map of Israel to represent Palestine on the back of its jerseys.

• Anti-Israeli posters appear in Argentine tourist town

  December 23, 2014 7:34am

  Posters in the city of Bariloche, located in the foothills of the Andes Mountains, call for a boycott against Israeli tourists, who make up about 10 percent of the lucrative tourist trade.

• Iran to expand its media influence in Latin America

  December 12, 2014 7:51am

  The Iranian Fars News Agency has opened a Buenos Aires office to cover Latin America.

• Statue of Anne Frank dedicated in Buenos Aires

  December 11, 2014 6:18am

  The statue is a replica of the one located in Amsterdam, where Anne and her family were hidden during World War II.