By Dorella Kamhi*
Thirty years have passed since terrorist attack on a center of the Jewish Community of Argentina in Buenos Aires. It is the deadliest attack in the history of Latin America, where a driver, on a suicide mission, throws a truck full of explosives into the building of the Association of Israelis of Argentina (AMIA: Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina).
Tragic toll: 85 dead and more than 300 injured. The Jewish Community of Argentina counted, at the time, about 200.000 members making it the largest Community in Latin America. The tragic incident occurred two years after the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires that left 29 dead and was blamed on Iran by the Argentine government.
Two trials were held. The first aimed to find the guilty, but failed due to corruption and power struggles between politicians and judges.
The 2003, the first judge to take up the case, formally declared that Hezbollah and "radical elements of the Iranian government" had planned and carried out the attack.
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The new issue of THE BRIDGE magazine (June 2024), published by the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), has been released.
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Moderate French political parties must form a governing coalition without France Insubordinate, Council of Jewish Foundations of France (CRIF) president Jonathan Arfi told The Jerusalem Post, warning that party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon was a threat for the Jews of France.
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The whole world knows Barbra Streisand as an actress, director, producer, writer, screenwriter, singer and composer.
However, less well known is her important and passionate work for social justice and the fight against discrimination and inequality.
The Genesis Foundation, in its context Genesis Award ceremony for Barbra Streisand, which took place last June in Los Angeles, presented a video focused on the social work of the famous artist and the unknown side of her personality as an activist rooted in her Jewish heritage and the values of Judaism. See HERE is the VIDEO.
55 Holocaust survivors from around the world, survivors of the October 7th massacre and families of the Israeli hostages of Hamas, participated in this year's "March of the Living", in Auschwitz, on 6.5.2024. Symbolic this year was the participation of the President of the European Network of the March of the Living (EMOTL), Benjamin Albala, honorary president of the I.K. of Athens and former president of KISE.
Among them seven Israeli survivors of the Holocaust who – almost 80 years after the end of the Shoah – also survived the attacks of October 7. See HERE video from the event and interviews of the participants.
SEE HERE photos