Buenos Aires

First Jewish university in South America to open in Buenos Aires next year

The seminary is named after American rabbi Marshall Meyer, a New York native who worked to revitalize the Conservative movement in Buenos Aires from 1958 to 1984.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
06/12/2023

Roger Waters drops antisemitic iconography in Argentina following legal threat

Waters completed his tour without his infamous Nazi costume, an Anne Frank comparison or his inflatable pig with a star of David. However, he insulted a Jewish hotel owner on stage.

US and Israeli embassies hit with bomb threats in Buenos Aires

The US embassy said it is back to normal operations on Wednesday afternoon.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
18/10/2023

Four Argentinian-Israelis dead, others missing from kibbutzes after Hamas attack

Argentina is home to an estimated 180,000 Jews, the sixth-largest Jewish population of any country in the world.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
09/10/2023

Argentina police shut down Nazi and antisemitic bookseller

After the war, many Nazi officials including death camp supervisor Adolf Eichmann also emigrated to Argentina to avoid trials for war crimes.

By REUTERS
13/09/2023

Buenos Aires to rename subway station after Jewish woman who famously stood up to sex traffickers

Born in what is now Ukraine in 1900 and raised in Poland, Liberman immigrated to Buenos Aires in 1922, joining a wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to South America.

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
09/09/2023

Long-necked dinosaur fossil found by Argentine scientists is one of biggest ever

The dinosaur's bones were so big they caused the van carrying them to a Buenos Aires laboratory to tip over, though no one was injured and the remains were left intact.

By REUTERS
18/05/2023
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