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Brazil’s first Jewish Supreme Court president closes inauguration speech with ‘baruch Hashem’

The grandson of Romanian Jewish refugees, Fux became Brazil’s first Jewish Supreme Court justice in 2011.

By Marcus M. Gilban September 14, 2020 9:46 am

Brazilian Jewish hospital suspends doctor for comparing COVID-19 to the Holocaust

Nise Yamaguchi, an oncologist and immunologist at Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital, made the comparison in an appearance on the “Impressoes” television show.

July 15, 2020 4:54 pm

Pastor Tupirani da Hora Lores preaching at his church in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in June 2020. (Courtesy of Sinaggoa Sem Fronteiras)

Brazilian pastor and congregants pray for another Holocaust

“God, what you have done in World War II, you must do again,” the clergyman at a radical evangelical congregation shouted during a sermon in Rio.

June 19, 2020 10:52 am

Brazilian Jewish groups slam German comedian for Holocaust joke

By Marcus M. Gilban May 25, 2020 9:02 am

Daniel Azulay, renowned Brazilian artist and educator, dies of coronavirus at 72

By Marcus M. Gilban March 29, 2020 9:17 am

Jewish Brazilian cosmetics magnate donates 1.7 tons of gel alcohol to fight coronavirus

By Marcus M. Gilban March 22, 2020 10:10 am

3 attackers assault Jewish man wearing a kippah in Brazil

By Marcus M. Gilban March 3, 2020 11:58 am

Brazilian governor at remembrance ceremony calls Holocaust ‘humankind’s day of shame’

By Marcus M. Gilban January 28, 2020 9:51 am

Brazil’s culture minister fired for giving a speech that used excerpts of one by the Nazi Goebbels

By Marcus M. Gilban January 20, 2020 1:57 pm

Benedito Araujo de Souza, right, arriving at Yeshiva Camp in Aquiraz, Brazil on Jan. 2, 2020. (Synagoga Sem Froteiras)

79-year-old Brazilian man attends Jewish summer camp

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 10, 2020 9:51 am

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