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The 32nd anniversary gathering to memorialize the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 17, 2026. (Juan Melamed via JTA)
July 21, 2026, 12:39 pm
Argentina’s Jews turn World Cup soccer chant into call for justice over AMIA bombing
Community adopts slogan ‘Today we cannot lose… our memory’ in campaign to raise awareness of how trial in absentia of suspects still hasn’t begun, 32 years after attack that killed 85
By Juan Melamed
A fan carries a giant banner depicting Lionel Messi as Argentina fans gather to celebrate and show support for their team at a beachfront park in Miami Beach, Florida, July 2, 2026, one day ahead of Argentina's World Cup round of 32 soccer match against Cape Verde. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
July 7, 2026, 6:37 pm
How a Jewish superfan designed Argentinian soccer team’s iconic crest 50 years ago
Star player Messi, who has visited the Jewish state, wore the uniform when inspiring Argentina’s epic comeback in the World Cup Round of 16 game against Egypt on Tuesday
By Juan Melamed
Argentina's president, Javier Milei, right, greets attendees at a major Chabad event in Buenos Aires, June 8, 2026. (Nicolas Kremenchusky for Chabad Lubavitch Argentina via JTA)
June 10, 2026, 7:02 pm
Courting European Jews, Javier Milei praises ‘Judeo-Christian values’ at Chabad event
Argentine president links Judaism to capitalism at Monday memorial for Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as country presents itself as destination for those fleeing rising antisemitism
By Juan Melamed
Then-prosecutor Viviana Fein speaks with reporters outside her office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
May 21, 2026, 11:50 pm
Argentine ex-prosecutor charged with cover-up in 2015 death of AMIA bombing investigator
Viviana Fein allegedly failed to preserve evidence at apartment of Alberto Nisman, who was found shot hours before testimony on president’s cover-up of Iran’s role in 1994 massacre
By Juan Melamed
A gallery of young Argentinian Jews 'disappeared' under the military junta beginning in 1976 is featured on the website of Eduiot, an educational memorial project. Fernando Brodsky is at top right (Eduiot via JTA)
March 26, 2026, 8:00 am
50 years after the Dirty War, Argentine Jews remember the ‘disappeared’ from their community
Educational initiatives highlight the disproportionate number of Jews who were abducted, tortured and murdered by the military junta amid antisemitism from government forces
By Juan Melamed
Interior of the Bet El Sephardic synagogue in Buenos Aires. (Horacio Literat/ACILBA, the Moroccan Jewish Association of Argentina)
January 21, 2026, 12:25 pm
Argentina’s chief Sephardic rabbi reaffirms ban on local conversions, sparking outcry
Non-Orthodox groups say century-old edict is no longer needed, subjects converts to Judaism to control of Israel’s Orthodox rabbis
By Juan Melamed
Argentina's (L-R) Frente de Izquierda deputies Romina del Pla, Miryam Bregman and Nicolas Del Cano sit at their desks with banners against a US invasion of Venezuela and the labor reform during the oath ceremony at the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires on December 3, 2025. (Juan Mabromata / AFP)
December 9, 2025, 6:49 am
Left-wing Argentine lawmakers pledge allegiance to ‘free Palestine’ in oaths of office
A Jewish lawmaker has proposed legislation that would bar anyone who doesn’t take the standard parliamentary oath from being sworn in
By Juan Melamed
Tour director smiles as he conducts Argentine students chanting 'Today we burn Jews' on graduation trip in screenshot from video that went viral on September 28, 2025. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 30, 2025, 9:52 am
‘Today we burn Jews’: Argentine students chant on bus, with Jewish students on board
Students from Escuela Humanos, which says it trains ‘ambassadors of peace,’ seen in video shouting antisemitic slogan as tour coordinator apparently joins in; Milei: ‘Reprehensible’
By Juan Melamed
Then-vice president of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo) human rights organization, Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, photographed at her home during an interview with AFP in Buenos Aires on July 20, 2016. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
September 7, 2025, 9:10 pm
Rosa Roisinblit, who fought for children ‘stolen’ by Argentine junta, dies at 106
Roisinblit, born in town of Jewish migrants, was reunited with grandson in 2000, witnessed her daughter and son-in-law’s kidnappers brought to justice in 2016
By AFP
Handout picture released on May 11, 2025 by Argentina's Supreme Court showing authorities checking Nazi documentation found in boxes stored at the basement of the Justice Palace, in Buenos Aires. (Handout / ARGENTINA'S SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE / AFP)TS
July 15, 2025, 8:01 pm
Nazi documents found in Argentina raise uncomfortable questions about country’s past
Hundreds of files uncovered in an archive beneath the Supreme Court in Buenos Aires; Jewish leaders and researchers wonder what they were doing there
By Leila Miller
People wave orange handkerchiefs in honor of the Bibas children as they demonstrate for the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught on Israel, in Buenos Aires on February 24, 2025. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
February 25, 2025, 5:39 pm
Buenos Aires Jews hold massive demonstration on behalf of Bibas family
Some 15,000 take to the streets to commemorate the dual Israeli-Argentine citizens killed and held captive by Hamas, and to thank President Javier Milei for his support for Israel
By Michelle Mendeluk
A man in northern Israel holds a sign portraying Shiri Silberstein Bibas, whose body Hamas falsely claimed to have released, and her sons, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, whose remains were in fact handed over, on February 20, 2025. His sign reads 'The Bibas family: We will not forgive and we will not forget!' (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 2:30 pm
US threatens ‘annihilation’ after Hamas returns bodies of Bibas boys without their mother
Argentina declares 2 days of mourning as terror group returns bodies of dual-citizens Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, along with body that Hamas falsely claimed was mother Shiri Bibas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Argentinian President Javier Milei (L) and his new Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein stand during the latter's swearing-in ceremony at Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2024. (Argentinian Presidency / AFP)
November 5, 2024, 11:20 pm
At swearing-in ceremony, Argentina’s president compares Jewish FM to biblical Abraham
Inaugurating Gerardo Werthein, Javier Milei likens him to patriach who had a ‘responsibility to bring messages of Torah, life and freedom to the world’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Argentine police arrest suspected members of an Islamist terror cell that was allegedly planning attacks on the Jewish community in Mendoza, Argentina, August 16, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 17, 2024, 10:15 am
Argentine police thwart Islamist terror cell planning attacks on Jewish community
Authorities say seven members of alleged group arrested after raids on their homes in city of Mendoza; firearms, knives and electronic devices seized
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Argentine President Javier Milei addresses the World Jewish Congress prior to the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
July 18, 2024, 2:42 pm
Argentina’s Milei vows to pursue long-neglected justice for 1994 AMIA center bombing
On 30th anniversary of attack, blamed on Iran and Hezbollah, that killed 85 at Jewish center in Buenos Aires, president commits to boosting intel system so it can never recur
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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