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• Argentine Jewish groups to boycott government Holocaust ceremony

  January 23, 2015 12:28pm

  Leaders of AMIA, DAIA, the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Zionist Organization and the Simon Wiesenthal Center said that they will not participate in the government-organized event Jan. 27.

• Argentines in Israel to hold ‘I am Nisman’ protest

  January 22, 2015 4:59pm

  Placards at the rally at the Argentine Embassy near Tel Aviv will be modeled after the “I am Charlie” campaign in France.

• Argentine president now says Nisman death was not a suicide

  January 22, 2015 10:51am

  In an open letter published on her Facebook page and blog, Kirchner wrote that Nisman’s death was an “operation against the government,” reversing an earlier statement by the government.

• 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.