In 2016, some 76,000 Sabbath-observing students were confined to classrooms for six hours on a Saturday so they could take a national exam after sunset.
Popular Brazilian journalist Marc Tawil, 43, spoke about the Jewish influences in his life and career in a 10-minute-long video in Portuguese as part of the web-based “Judaism Does Good” campaign run by the Sao Paulo Jewish Federation.
The Hebraica sports club in Rio invited Jair Bolsonaro — an advocate of Israel and of Brazil's right-wing dictatorship — following the scrapping of his talk at the Sao Paulo branch.