Brazil Jews

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.

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.

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.

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

Global

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

Global

A Brazilian Holocaust survivor’s life gets memorialized in song

Global

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

Israel

Brazilian expats help countrymen navigate high-tech industry in Israel

Global

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

Global

Brazilian students simulate Nazi human experiments for science fair

Global

Brazilian Israelis launch group to help growing stream of newcomers

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