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• Argentine Jews seek legal action against teacher who praised Hitler

  May 18, 2018 7:56am

  BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentine Jews said they will take legal action against a history teacher who praised Adolf Hitler to her students at a Catholic school. Denise Yanet Evequoz was banned from teaching last week at the Jesus Maestro high school near Buenos Aires after a video emerged of her telling her history students that…

• ‘Jewish’ club wins top rugby tournament in Argentina

  November 13, 2017 7:50am

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A rugby team identified with Jews and Israel won the Buenos Aires league championship, the sport’s biggest tournament in Argentina. On Saturday, Hindu Club defeated Alumni, 27-20, to become the Argentine capital’s top team. Hindu is known as the country’s Jewish rugby team because of its Jewish membership and fan…

• Mike Pence commemorates Holocaust, terrorism victims in Argentina

  August 16, 2017 1:53pm

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence in Argentina commemorated Holocaust victims and those killed in terrorist attacks on Israelis and the Jewish community in 1992 and 1994. On Tuesday, Pence paid homage to the victims at a memorial in Buenos Aires — his first stop during an official visit to Argentina –…

• Orthodox party wins control of AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires

  May 2, 2017 3:08pm

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An Orthodox party has won an outright majority in elections for the leadership of the AMIA Jewish community center here, representing a power shift in local Jewish politics. The results of Sunday’s election released Monday showed the Religious United Front with 77 percent of the 6,507 votes. It marked the first…

• US leaders push Argentine president on case of slain Jewish prosecutor

  April 28, 2017 8:09am

  (JTA) — President Donald Trump and members of Congress asked Argentine President Mauricio Macri about the ongoing investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor looking into the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing. Macri said Thursday that the issue had been raised in three meetings he held this week during an official visit to…

• Argentine boxer Carolina Duer wins world bantamweight title on return to ring

  August 28, 2016 1:00pm

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine Jewish boxer Carolina Raquel Duer won the interim International Boxing Federation’s world bantamweight title in her return to the ring after two years. Duer, 38, nicknamed “The Turk,” knocked out Aline de Casia Scaranello of Brazil in the sixth round Friday in Quilmes, a Buenos Aires suburb. The bout…

• Argentine graduates’ Nazi salutes provokes brawl with Jewish students

  August 26, 2016 10:32am

  (JTA) – Students attending a German-language school in Argentina were accused of offending Jewish counterparts at a resort while wearing fake Hitler mustaches and performing Nazi salutes. The incident, which escalated into a brawl, occurred Wednesday at a nightclub in Bariloche, 800 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, according to Argentina’s National Institute Against Racism, Discrimination…

• Nix visit by Iranian official, Wiesenthal Center urges Chile’s president

  August 24, 2016 8:17am

  (JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the president of Chile to cancel a planned visit by Iran’s foreign minister scheduled for late this week. The center in a letter urged President Michelle Bachelet to “take appropriate action to restore Chile’s values of coexistence and integration and to protest a state visit from a country…

• Final AMIA bombing victim in Buenos Aires identified 22 years after attack

  August 11, 2016 11:57am

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — The only unidentified fatality of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center here has been named. Augusto Daniel Jesus was identified as the victim with more than 99.99 percent certainty based on an analysis of DNA taken from the body and from his mother, according to the Argentina government’s…

• Argentine Jewish leaders call on government to make AMIA bombing a ‘national priority’

  July 19, 2016 10:05am

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine Jewish leaders called on the country’s government to make the investigation of the AMIA Jewish center bombing a “national priority” at a ceremony commemorating the attack that killed 85 and injured hundreds. Speakers at the ceremony Monday at the site of the rebuilt building also thanked the government for…