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5 Jewish facts about Guatemala’s new Hebrew-speaking president

Bernardo Arevalo is the son of a former president who was an early supporter of Israel.

Paraguay moves its Israeli embassy back to Jerusalem

The South American country had previously moved its embassy to Jerusalem, then back to Tel Aviv.

Argentina’s shocking primary winner could become the country’s first Jewish president

Javier Milei, a libertarian economist who wants to convert Argentina’s currency to the U.S. dollar, studies with a rabbi regularly and wants to convert to Judaism.

Windows shattered at headquarters of Holocaust memorial site foundation in Germany

In Brazil, pro-Palestinian protest leads to injury and arrest at pro-Israel speaker’s university lecture

Paul Cohen at his home in Narsaq, Greenland

The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on earth’

Saudi Arabia appoints first Palestinian envoy as Saudi-Israel normalization talks continue

Holocaust ‘book box’ at German deportation memorial destroyed in apparent antisemitic arson

Makkabi Berlin, soccer club founded by Holocaust survivors, is about to make Jewish history in Germany

Israel evacuates more than 200 Ethiopians from conflict region

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