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Jewish Life Growing Up in Buenos Aires
Diego Rotman - scholar and artist with a special interest in the Yiddish theater duo Dzigan and Schumacher - talks about his life growing up in Buenos Aires with a Jewish family and identity.
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Palermo Soho in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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In this video we explore Palermo Soho in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We have explored a few different districts in Buenos Aires and this is one of our favourite spots. Palermo has two areas, you have Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood. In our opinion Palermo Soho has more to be desired, there are better restaurants and bars and generally we feel the vibe is better.
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ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: CAPITAL PLAGUED BY CRIME WAVE
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Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, long considered a safe haven compared to other more dangerous South American cities is being plagued by a crime wave.
Only this week a bomb was discovered outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.
In response, the government has stepped up security in the capital calling on the army and border guards to boost security forces.
Since Argentina's military dictatorship ended in 1983 the army has kept a low profile.
But this week the government called up military reinforcements to help boost security in Buenos Aires.
In the last year crime has surged in the Argentine capital and the police have been unable to control the increased violence.
The Jewish community was particularly targeted in the early 1990s, and security forces have been deployed to buildings linked to this community and Arab institutions.
From now on, this Jewish hospital will have a round the clock police guard.
Secretary of Security Juan Pelacci tried to reassure the nation that the government was responding.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
It's not something new in the world but it is hitting our communities really hard. And from now on together, in solidarity, united, the men of the security forces and of the Argentine Federal Police - the forces of the national government - are responding and will guarantee the protection and guardianship of all inhabitants within the law and rules.
SUPER CAPTION: Juan Pelacci, Secretary of Security
But it is not just the Jewish community in Buenos Aires that is worried about violent crime, a recent survey showed the city's inhabitants are demanding more protection from the police.
In a recent poll, one in three Buenos Aires residents said they had been assaulted recently their neighbourhoods.
This man says he feels very vulnerable as an older person in Buenos Aires.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
In fact right here on this corner of Uruguay and Paraguay someone stole a Rolex watch I had that I loved very much. I was in the car and I had the window open and a person came along and held me by the neck and took the watch - in the plain light of day.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop
Many point to unemployment, which has doubled to 16 per cent since President Carlos Menem took office in 1989, as the main cause for the crime wave.
But others disagree.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
I don't think the only reason is a lack of work. You don't suddenly become a thief just because you're don't have a job. I think it's a cultural problem.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop
The government believes a hard hand is needed and has created a heavily armed elite force to crack down on the crime.
It has also proposed introducing tougher laws to prevent violent crime.
But the government has also tried more modern methods, including cycling police officers to patrol the parks of Buenos Aires.
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Kosher McDonalds - Buenos Aires, Argentina - YeahThatsKosher review
Dani Klein from checks out kosher restaurants for Jewish Travel TV.
This is the only Kosher McDonalds in the world outside of Israel. Buenos Aires is known for it's meat and the McDonald's does not disappoint. Totally different flavors than what we're used to in the U.S., but the kosher McDonalds is definitely worth the visit.
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Wafflemania - Buenos Aires, Argentina - YeahThatsKosher review
Dani Klein from checks out kosher restaurants for Jewish Travel TV.
Wafflemania is a small breakfast place in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. While they ironically did not have any waffles for us to try, the dulce de leche mini croissants were unbelievable!
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Al Galope - Buenos Aires, Argentina - YeahThatsKosher review
Dani Klein from checks out kosher restaurants for Jewish Travel TV.
Al Galope is a kosher Argentine steakhouse in the Once neighborhood. The steaks are huge and juicy. Come check it out.
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Argentina's Jewish community in despair
Argentina's Jewish community is despondent after a lead prosecutor who was investigating a synagogue bombing was killed. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports. More from CNN at
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ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: IMMIGRANTS ARE CHANGING FACE OF CAPITAL
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A new flow of immigrants is changing the human landscape in Argentina, especially in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Newcomers from Asian countries are now adding to those who arrived from Italy, Spain and Arabic countries at the turn of the century.
One in every ten people living in Buenos Aires is a foreigner.
It looks like a town in China, but it is in the middle of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Full of shops with imported Chinese products and a large population of Chinese immigrants, Bajo Belgrano neighbourhood is known as China Town.
Argentina, traditionally a promised land for overseas immigrants, has seen an influx of newcomers from the Far East in the last decade.
The ruling Justicialista Party has a special office for their Taiwanese followers in Bajo Belgrano.
Koreans concentrate in another neighbourhood, Bajo Flores, or Korea Town.
The arrival of people from Asia has been somehow accidental, for most of them were on their way to the U-S and Canada, but decided to stay here.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean translated into Spanish)
He's saying that he came here and he felt good here, he lived here for a year, then he lived in Canada for another year, but he liked it better in Argentina and he came back to stay.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP, Korean immigrant
One in every ten people living in Buenos Aires is a foreigner, and the number is increasing.
Economic stability and lack of racial conflicts are some of the reasons that explain this boom.
But immigrants have been attracted to Argentina for hundreds of years.
Italians, Spaniards, Arabs and Jews came at the turn of the century and contributed with their traditions and culture to the idiosyncrasy of Buenos Aires.
Then came Latin Americans from neighbouring countries.
The Bolivian Charrua neighbourhood is forty years old.
More than 400 Bolivian families live here.
And they have kept their traditions intact -- every year they celebrate the festival of the Virgin of Copacabana, Bolivia's patron saint.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
They are continuing with the folklore and the cultural identity characteristic of the Bolivian people. Happy people who like to enjoy themselves, they've got their music, a very specific one, Andean music, for instance. There is not a clear cut, an uprooting. On the contrary, it looks as if the longer they are here, young people try to identify themselves with their culture.
SUPER CAPTION: Ricardo Fernandez (Bolivian immigrant)
Alcira Cardenas de Zurita works in Charrua health centre.
She has lived in Argentina for 50 years, and has seen the Bolivian neighbourhood grow.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
Argentina has always been a source of jobs for all the neighbouring countries, like Peru or Paraguay. And it is a chain reaction. One comes and then brings a relative, a friend, and that's how they keep coming.
SUPER CAPTION: Alcirta Cardenas de Zurita (Bolivian immigrant)
Bolivians, Paraguayans, Peruvians or Koreans, immigrants have changed the city landscape and also some of the inhabitants' tastes.
People in Buenos Aires can now dance salsa as well as tango and have the option to change their delicious beef steaks for a Chop Suey.
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Growing up in the Once Jewish Neighborhood in Buenos Aires
Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - describes being raised on the border between a Jewish neighborhood and a Spanish-speaking neighborhood.
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ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: ARGENTINA HONOURS EMILIE SCHINDLER
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Argentina on Wednesday honoured the widow of Oskar Schindler, the Czech businessman credited with saving the lives of more than one thousand Jews during the Nazi holocaust.
Emilie Schindler, now 87 years old, was awarded the Order of May - Argentina's highest honour for foreign citizens - in recognition of the part she played in her husband's mission.
She lives in Argentina but remains a German citizen.
Recognition at last - the woman who played a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the second world war.
Emilie Schindler took centre stage at the San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires, accepting her award in the presence of ambassadors, Jewish leaders - and the Argentine foreign minister:
SOUNDBITE:
It is an honour for Argentina to have her here, as part of our multi-cultural society and I am honoured to be able to present her with this award.
SUPER CAPTION: Foreign Minister Guido di Tella.
Emilie, frail and supporting herself with a cane, managed to attend the ceremony in person - but needed someone else to read her speech for her:
SOUNDBITE:
I have lost everything but my accent. My husband and I have been refugees here in Argentina for 45 years. I am now 87 and have lived here for more than half of my life. Because of the film Schindler's List the whole world now knows about what we did to help the Jewish people during the Holocaust.
SUPER CAPTION: spokesman for Mrs Schindler.
She dedicated the award to those she and her husband, Oskar, failed to save.
The life of Oskar and Emilie Schindler was the subject of Steven Spielberg's 1993 film, Schindler's List. Until then, Emilie had lived relatively unknown in Argentina since 1949.
Both German Catholics, Oskar and Emilie convinced the Nazis to move Jews from the Auschwitz concentration camp to a factory the couple owned in Krakow, Poland, in 1940.
Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp. More than one and a half (m) million people - 90 percent of them Jews - were gassed, shot or starved to death there between 1940-1945.
The Schindlers kept the Nazis at a distance while feeding and caring for their Jewish workers, about twice as many as needed to produce metal coating for German army weapons and materials.
The couple emigrated to Argentina in 1949. Eight years later Oskar left his wife to return to Germany where he died in 1974. He was buried in Jerusalem, at his own request.
Emilie remained in Argentina which she counts as her real home.
SOUNDBITE:
For me it is of great importance. It is a great honour to have this recognition here in Argentina because I am still a German citizen. But I have lived here for almost 45 years. After the war all the Germans and Czechs who were thrown out came here with nothing.
SUPER CAPTION: Emilie Schindler.
Emilie now lives in a one-bedroom flat 45 miles (60 kilometers) south of Buenos Aires, bought for her by local Jewish groups.
Now the Argentine President Carlos Menem has invited her to an audience with him in the near future.
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Argentina opens all files on 1994 Jewish community centre bombing
The Argentinian government has declassified all documents relating to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
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Becoming Jewish Argentines
In Becoming Jewish Argentines: Sephardim, Marriage Choice, and the Construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960), Adriana Brodsky explores the marriage patterns of Argentine Sephardic Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazic Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazic nor fully Sephardic, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim usually married within, as the 20th century progressed, and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available, choosing a marriage partner outside of the group became more common. The presentation suggests that loyalties to communities of origin were slowly superseded by a sense of belonging to the Argentine nation.
Speaker Biography: Adriana M. Brodsky is a professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland and received her Ph.D. at Duke University.
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ARGENTINA - REACTION TO SYNAGOGUE BOMBING
Tens of thousands of people gathered in the rain in the Argentine
capital, Buenos Aires on Thursday (21/7) to protest against the
bombing of an Argentine-Jewish community centre in which more than
45 people were killed. Some 150,000 Jews and others listened in
silence as Argentina's chief rabbi Salomon Ben Hamu said prayers
in Hebrew, and an Israeli envoy read messages from Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. The demonstration was held three days after a powerful bomb razed the headquarters of DAIA and the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association (AMIA). The attack killed at least 45 people and rescue workers continue to search through
the rubble for up to 70 people still unaccounted for.
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ARGENTINA: ANNIVERSARY OF JEWISH CULTURAL CENTRE BOMB ATTACK
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Two years after the worst peacetime attack on Jews outside Israel, hundreds of people gathered Thursday in the bombed site of a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires.
Police have still not identified the bombers who killed 95 people and wounded more than 250.
It was here that a bomb ripped through a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires two years ago.
Several hundred relatives of the victims gathered Thursday to mark the anniversary of the attack.
Relatives held photos of their loved ones who died when a suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into the AMIA building.
95 people died and more than 250 people were injured.
The ceremony began with the sounding of a siren at the exact time of the early-morning explosion which levelled the seven-storey building.
Relatives then placed red roses one by one by a fence scrawled with the names of the victims.
The rabbi recited the Kadesh, the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead. And a relative of a victim read a poem:
UPSOUND: (Spanish)
Even when our bodies are not strong enough and time bends our backs, if so much horror and so much hatred are still unpunished, we will continue fighting strongly for justice, for memory, for the dead in the AMIA.
SUPERCAPTION: Relative of a victim
As yet, a government investigation has not identified the perpetrators of the bombing.
Last weekend, 14 Buenos Aires provincial police officers were arrested on charges of participating in a stolen car ring which allegedly supplied the van used in the bombing.
Jewish community leaders have reacted with caution to the arrests, saying it is too early to tell whether they mark a breakthrough in the investigation.
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Being Jewish and Stateless is Not a Good Combination: Immigration to Buenos Aires in the 1960s
Samuel Ponczak—Holocaust survivor, polyglot, and translator—describes how his family was kicked out of France and with nowhere else to turn, they immigrated to Argentina where they had an uncle, and he used knowledge of Yiddish and Jewish community to help start his father's tailoring business.
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Argentina Jewish Center Bombing Unpunished 25 Years Later
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NEWS DESK | It's been a quarter century since the AMIA bombing in Argentina took place at the Jewish community center. Still, it's remains unpunished, suspected of being executed by an Iranian proxy. Our Dan Raviv has the story.
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Argentina’s government of Mauricio Macri is set to declare militia Iran-backed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization for committing fatal attacks against Israel’s Embassy and the AMIA Jewish Community Center in 1994, killing 85 and injuring hundreds more, Argentinian daily La Nación reported on Friday.
Next Tuesday President Mauricio will meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the matter after a request was reportedly made by the United States and Israel.
Pompeo is planned to land next Tuesday in Buenos Aires for a short two-day visit to attend the Western Hemisphere Ministerial anti-terrorism summit.
The summit will pay tribute to the 85 victims of the AMIA, 25 years after the deadly terrorist attack occurred.
We are evaluating different possibilities. One of them is to pass a decree, senior Argentinian sources told La Nación. President Mauricio Macri wants his government to find the most rapid solution to adding Lebanon's Hezbollah to Argentina's official list of terrorist organizations.
We do not have a majority in Parliament, and it would take too long to pass a law there, senior sources explained to La Nación.
In 2003, the Argentine Justice system blamed Iran for being behind the attack on AMIA and Hezbollah for executing it.