Brazil

South American immigrants arrive in Israel after 40 days in limbo

A partnership between two aliyah groups helped bring 137 Jews from Brazil and Argentina to Israel stranded by the closure of the Jewish state’s main international airport.

Joseph Safra, Brazil’s richest person and Jewish philanthropist, dies at 82

Forbes magazine said Safra was the richest banker in the world, with a fortune estimated at $23 billion.

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.

Global

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

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

Global

Brazilian pastor and congregants pray for another Holocaust

Global

Brazilian Jewish groups slam German comedian for Holocaust joke

Bonds of Life

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

Global

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

Global

3 attackers assault Jewish man wearing a kippah in Brazil

Global

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

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