Brazil Jews

Rabbi Gilberto Ventura, right, and volunteers prepare to dispatch food packages to a needy residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 27, 2020. (Courtesy of Sinagoga sem Fronteiras)

As COVID-19 puts Brazil’s poverty issues into sharp focus, Brazilian Jews rush to help favelas

Brazilian Jews, who are largely upper middle class, are stepping up to aid the impoverished, densely populated areas where social distancing is difficult.

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 5, 2020 12:48 pm

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David Hertz, who uses food for social change, wins $100K Bronfman Prize

A Brazilian-based organization uses cooking classes and nutrition education to help those living on the margins.

September 5, 2019 9:57 am

Holocaust survivor Nanette Koning talking to bnei anusim at Yeshiva Camp in Sao Paulo in 2018. (Courtesy of Yeshiva Camp)

In Brazil, a rabbi opens the world’s first summer camp for descendants of forcibly converted Jews

Yeshiva Camp brings youths from some of Brazil’s poorest villages for 2 weeks of cultural and spiritual enrichment in one of Sao Paulo’s most prestigious quarters.

March 28, 2019 2:25 pm

A Brazilian Holocaust survivor’s life gets memorialized in song

By Marcus M. Gilban November 14, 2018 12:31 pm

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How ‘Brazil’s Trump’ is winning over Jewish voters

By Marcus M. Gilban October 26, 2018 12:41 pm

Brazilian expats help countrymen navigate high-tech industry in Israel

By Marcus M. Gilban December 21, 2017 9:36 am

One of Brazil’s oldest synagogues to be rededicated 100 years after it opened

December 6, 2017 7:49 am

Brazilian students simulate Nazi human experiments for science fair

November 14, 2017 10:35 am

Brazilian Israelis launch group to help growing stream of newcomers

By Marcus M. Gilban July 27, 2017 4:53 am

Jewish club in Rio hosts populist whom Sao Paulo Jews dis-invited from talk

March 5, 2017 5:01 am

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