Argentina

Jewish tennis star Diego Schwartzman announces retirement at 31, ranking 142

Diego Schwartzman, renowned Jewish tennis player, announced his retirement post-Argentina Open 2025. His career highlights, Jewish identity, and impact remembered fondly.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
07/05/2024

Florida woman comes to Israel so often she ends up making aliyah

"Every time I left Israel, I always felt I would come back." Jordan Weil's aliyah journey.

By JORDANA BENAMI
27/04/2024

Iran’s president in Sri Lanka, as Argentina seeks arrest of Iran’s interior minister

The AMIA suicide bombing occurred on 18 July 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish Community Center.

Was the wreckage found off Argentina a Nazi submarine?

Independent researchers concluded that the submarine was very likely of Nazi origin, and researchers from the Italian Naval League supported this finding.

Iran and Hezbollah responsible for AMIA and Israel embassy bombings, Argentina says

Milei told the Argentinian Jewish community that he was doing all he could to bring the perpetrators of the bombing to justice as part of his campaign.

Speaking at Miami synagogue, Argentina’s Javier Milei reveals he has Jewish heritage

Milei made the revelation while speaking Wednesday night at the Shul of Bal Harbor, a large Chabad synagogue in the Miami area.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
12/04/2024

Argentina freezes embassy move to Jerusalem, approves new ambassador to Israel

Argentina’s government froze it’s initiative to move it’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in order to appoint Rabbi Axel Wahnish to be the new Argentinian ambassador to Israel.

How a chat on Lionel Messi saved this Israeli grandmother on October 7

Esther Cuño, 90, credits her survival on October 7 to a conversation she had with Hamas terrorists on Argentinian soccer player Lionel Messi.

 Javier Milei at the Western Wall, February 6, 2024

Javier Milei's rabbi to 'Post': How the Argentinian president fell in love with Judaism

Milei's visit to the Western Wall was one of the first things he did when he arrived in the Holy Land, bringing the leader to tears.

Professional soccer tournament in Argentina features a Jewish team for the first time in 57 years

“It is also one more opportunity to make our position clear: defend Israel every minute, demand justice and the release of all those kidnapped by terrorism.”

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
02/03/2024
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