Jose Alperovich, an Argentina Jew, is challenging a law that requires the governor of Tucuman province to take an oath to “God, the Fatherland and the Christian saints.” Alperovich is a leading candidate to be the next governor.
The 2,566 French immigrants to Israel last year, while hardly a tidal wave out of a French Jewish community of 500,000, are more than double the number from the previous year. The Jewish Agency is stepping up its efforts to stoke this trend.
Sitting on the stage as her son announces his candidacy for president, Marcia Lieberman grasps her grandson’s hand and begins to tear up. “It’s beyond what any mom would ever dream,” she says later in the day as she opens her home
