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Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, October 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)
May 26, 2026, 5:33 pm
Who is Rebeca Grynspan, the Jewish Costa Rican running to head the UN?
Candidate for United Nations secretary-general, who would be first Jew and woman to head the world body, has family in Israel and has led UN office critical of the Jewish state
By Luke Tress
An unverified video circulating on social media purports to show Israeli travelers bound and lying face down during an armed robbery in Costa Rica. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 8, 2024, 11:22 am
Israeli tourists tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Costa Rica
Travelers reportedly followed for several days before incident, in area thought to be ‘relatively safe’
By ToI Staff
Contestants of the Miss Universe pageant visit the Tower of David Museum in the ancient citadel of Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, on November 30, 2021. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
December 8, 2021, 4:54 am
Puerto Rican Miss Universe contestant reveals great-grandfather survived Holocaust
In Israel for the competition, Michelle Marie Colon surprises fellow contestants and Holocaust museum officials in revealing her heritage during visit to Yad Vashem
By Ron Kampeas
Chuletas, a unique Crypto-Jewish presentation for a French toast creation. This is a sweet dairy recipe that turns bread and milk into a "pork chop." (Courtesy of Genie Milgrom)
September 27, 2019, 8:53 pm
Cache of Crypto-Jewish recipes dating to Inquisition found in Miami kitchen
New cookbook features unique kosher dishes unwittingly prepared by generations of a Catholic Cuban-Spanish family with hidden Sephardic Jewish roots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sally Abrams
January 10, 2018, 1:39 pm
Sally Abrams
You say ‘tribal’ like it’s a bad thing
I’ll keep the noisy, generous, caring, demanding Jewish people that mourns together for families most of us never met
Hannah and Ari Weiss (Courtesy of Camp Ramah Darom via JTA)
January 4, 2018, 4:07 am
Camp dedicates scholarship to Jewish family killed in plane crash
‘They were really stars, the two of them, just shining bright,’ Camp Ramah Darom director says of the Weisses, who died in Costa Rica wreck
By Josefin Dolsten
Five members of the Steinberg family from Scarsdale, New York, and four members of the Weiss family from Belleair, Florida, were among 12 people killed when the plane in which they were flying crashed in Punta Islita, Guanacaste, Costa Rica on December 31, 2017. (Costa Rica Civil Aviation press office via AP)
January 1, 2018, 9:18 am
Two Jewish families killed in Costa Rica plane crash
Five members of Steinberg family from New York and three members of Weiss family from Florida identified as victims
By AP and ToI Staff
Brenda Kent jumps on her boat as she and her husband leave the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 to take the boat up river in advance of Tropical Storm Nate. (John Fitzhugh/The Sun Herald via AP)
October 6, 2017, 10:20 pm
US states declare emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Nate
Storm expected to reach hurricane-speed winds when it makes landfall in US Gulf coast by Saturday night
By LUIS MANUEL GALEANO
Illustrative: Doctors performing an organ transplant. (Flash90)
September 11, 2017, 11:34 pm
Kidney traffickers selling organs to Israelis go on trial in Costa Rica
Suspects charged with locating donors, operating, selling organs for as much as $100,000, mainly to Israelis
By AFP and ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of San Jose in Costa Rica. (Getty Images)
March 23, 2017, 11:47 pm
Israeli national shot dead in Costa Rica
Foreign Ministry says family of citizen, in his 40s, notified of death, working to return body for burial
By ToI Staff
Cocaine discovered by police at Ben Gurion Airport, 17 February, 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 9, 2017, 10:34 pm
Smuggled cocaine nabbed at Ben Gurion airport
Woman from Costa Rica arrested with over 1 kilogram of the drug hidden inside laptop computer bag
By ToI Staff
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin (seated, left) and President of the Hebrew University Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson (seated, right), meet with rectors from universities in Latin America. (Mark Naiman/GPO: Courtesy of Hebrew University)
December 18, 2016, 9:00 pm
20 Latin American universities sign cooperation agreements with Hebrew U.
First-of-its-kind conference co-organized by Foreign Ministry lays groundwork for academic collaboration
By JTA
US President Barack Obama at a hotel in Panama City on April 10, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/ MANDEL NGAN)
April 11, 2015, 1:57 am
Obama holds talks with Cuban dissidents ahead of Castro meeting
President assures critics of communist regime that the US supports their efforts ‘because it is the right thing to do’
By AFP
A 1.5 acre property sitting on a mountain in Guanacaste, surrounded by tropical forest and overlooking the Pacific Ocean (Courtesy Kosher Casas)
December 2, 2014, 2:52 pm
Mi casa, su kosher casa
Two enterprising New Yorkers come up with an easy kosher vacation option in tropical Costa Rica
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative image of transplant surgery. (Flash90)
From the WebAugust 17, 2014, 1:51 pm
Israeli transplant brokers lure kidney patients to Costa Rica
Agents suspected of involvement in international organ trafficking ring, New York Times reports
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