By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 25, 2012
The photos are both simple and stark. There is a Klezmer duo in Buenos Aires, a circumcision in Uzbekistan, a musician at a New York soup kitchen. Set in crisp black-and-white, dozens of scenes captured by Israeli native Zion Ozeri reveal an evocative...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The Israeli Embassy in Argentina is launching a public campaign about survivors of the 1992 attack there. “Today I turn 20” will feature advertisements starting next week in the media, as well as on subways and in the streets....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The Argentinean and Israeli governments have issued a call for research and development projects. The deadline for proposals for the Argentina Israel Program for Industrial Research and Development, with grants totaling $160,000,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders of the Peace NGO Forum urged Argentina's president and foreign minister to take a larger role in the Middle East peace process. President Cristina Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman...
The Jewish population of St. Louis, if assumed to be in the 50-60,000 range, falls well below that of Montreal, listed as having the 24th largest core Jewish population of world cities. Yet if the Gateway City and environs were a freestanding country,...
By Diego Melamed, JTA, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
• Published November 15, 2011
In many ways, Carolina Raquel Duer is a typical middle-class Jewish kid from Buenos Aires. She attended a Jewish day school, spent time working and traveling in Israel and celebrated her bat mitzvah at a Conservative synagogue. But when she stepped into...
BUENOS AIRES — Rabbi Sergio Bergman, already one of Buenos Aires' most prominent spiritual leaders, has become one of the Argentine capital's most highly visible political candidates. Bergman was tapped by the city's incumbent mayor, Mauricio Macri,...
