Brazil Jews

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.

By Sam Sokol 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

A lost childhood in Belgium is recovered in music.

November 14, 2018 12:31 pm

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

Jules Sauer, Brazilian ‘Gemstone Hunter,’ dies at 95

February 2, 2017 3:23 pm

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