Tag: Argentine Jewish community

• Saturday, October 25th 2014 - 09:44 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez challenged to show her law degree and Timerman described as a 'traitor'

  

  A colloquium sponsored by an Argentine business grouping, IDEA, that has been critical of the government of Cristina Fernandez, but in a framework of moderation and self containment, turned into a students' open assembly when a constitutional law professor gave a speech on the rule of the law, called on President Cristina Fernandez to show her law degree and described minister Hector Timerman as a 'traitor' of the essence of Judaism for having reached an agreement with Iran.

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community lash out at the government over 1994 attack

  

  Thomas Saieg, the vice president of the Argentine AMIA Jewish community centre, the target of a terrorist attack which left 85 people killed back on 18 July 1994, demanded on Friday “a new trial as soon as possible to know what happened.”

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 07:51 UTC

  Pope sends message demanding justice on 20th anniversary of AMIA bombing

  

  On the 20th anniversary of the AMIA Jewish community center bombing, the Argentine pontiff sent a message for “justice” to Argentina’s Israeli community and relatives of the 85 victims that resulted dead in the attack.

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 09:16 UTC

  Setback for Cristina: federal court declares Iran/Argentina memorandum unconstitutional

  

  An Argentine Federal court on Thursday struck down the memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that local courts blamed on Teheran.

• Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 18:25 UTC

  Israel has eliminated most of terrorists involved in deadly attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina

  

  Israel has killed most of the terrorists who perpetrated deadly attacks on its embassy and a Jewish community center in Argentina in the 1990s, Israel's former Ambassador to Argentina Yitzhak Aviran told the Spanish-language Jewish news agency Agencia Judia de Noticias on Thursday.

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 08:05 UTC

  Oldest Jewish congregation in Argentina marks 150th anniversary

  

  The oldest Jewish congregation in Argentina will mark its 150th year with a series of celebrations, including the launching of a rabbi’s book about Pope Francis. The first minyan of the Congregación Israelita de la República Argentina met in 1862 on the occasion of the High Holidays. The foundation stone for its synagogue building was laid on Sept. 27, 1867.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

  Iran calls Argentine prosecutor ‘Zionist’ and denies infiltration in South America

  

  In a brief but extremely aggressive release the Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected point blank the report from Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman whom they described as “Zionist” and denied all allegations that Tehran has infiltrated nine South American countries to commit terrorist acts.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  Iran/Argentina memorandum involved in a further controversy

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met on Thursday with Interpol top officials and said he received ‘very strong support’ for the memorandum signed with Iran, which includes the questioning of those allegedly involved in the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization AMIA in Buenos Aires that killed 85 and left dozens injured.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Two suspects of the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, presidential candidate in Iran

  

  Two suspects in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires are candidates in Iran’s presidential election. Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati, who are believed to have planned the 1994 attack, were among the eight candidates approved for the June 14 election by Iran’s Guardian Council to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 18:27 UTC

  Jewish organization pledges to take Argentina/Iran accord to the Supreme Court

  

  Argentina’s AMIA Jewish Community Centre President, Guillermo Borger, harshly criticized the approval of the Argentina-Iran accord, which occurred Thursday early morning after nearly 20 hours of debate, and warned that the institution analyzes resorting to court to stop it.