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• Anti-Zionist panel riles Argentine Jews

  May 8, 2007 9:00am

  A day after a panel discussion on the 1994 bombing of Argentina’s central Jewish institution took on anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tones, a group representing victims’ relatives questioned why such an event should be held at a prominent book fair.

• Building community through Anne Frank

  May 8, 2007 9:00am

  Argentina tries to build the community’s trust in its security forces by having cadets lead an Anne Frank exhibit at the main Jewish institution in Buenos Aires.

• Report: Anti-Semitism up in Argentina

  May 8, 2007 9:00am

  A comprehensive annual report finds that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina rose sharply last year, sparked by last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah.

• Argentine elderly get new facility

  April 24, 2007 9:00am

  Elderly Argentine Jews will soon have a new place they can call home when LeDor VaDor, a $10 million, state-of-the-art facility, opens in Buenos Aires.

• Buenos Aires revels in Passover fest

  March 29, 2007 9:00am

  A fashionable area of Buenos Aires takes on a Jewish flavor – gefilte fish – at a Passover festival.

• Argentina remembers embassy bombing

  March 22, 2007 9:00am

  Buenos Aires’ Jewish community saw the historic official presence at the commemoration of the 1992 Israel Embassy bombing as a signal to pursue justice even 15 years after the attack.

• Argentines’ Iran visit riles Jews

  March 12, 2007 9:00am

  A solidarity visit to Iran by Argentine activists has stirred up Jewish leaders in Buenos Aires.

• Jewish groups welcome AMIA step

  October 26, 2006 9:00am

  Argentine Jewish groups are reacting with enthusiasm, but also caution, to a prosecutor’s demand for the arrest of a former Iranian president and seven others in connection with the 1994 bombing of Argentina’s main Jewish center.

• How volunteers saved culture from AMIA rubble

  September 4, 2006 9:00am

  Twelve years after the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires was bombed, a new book and documentary highlight the efforts of some 800 young people to save cultural and ritual objects, including works that had been rescued from the Holocaust.

• Iran a focus of memorial service in Argentina

  March 20, 2006 10:00am

  A memorial service is usually about the past. But a service honoring the victims of the 1992 terrorist attack at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which many believe Iran was responsible for, was also about the present — and the future.