Tag: Brazil

Israeli American baseball fans are paying attention to the action in Brooklyn: next month Israel competes against 3 countries in NYC.

As the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro come to a close, Israel can look back at what was one of its most successful Olympics ever.

The anti-Israel umbrella group 'Movement for Black Lives' is also deeply anti-Semitic. Read its political agenda.

Israeli security and high-tech firms are working with the 10,000 military and police officers who secure the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

A budding terror cell was arrested in Brazil in a crackdown to stop ISIS terror attack before they are launched.

There will be three Chabad welcome centers for Jewish visitors to the Summer Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro.

Back in January, Dayan tweeted bitterly, “14 MKs labored indefatigably against my appointment in Brazil: 13 Joint Arab List members and one Tzipi Livni.”

The Hagada includes many traditional Passover songs in Ladino, and follows the tradition of the Portuguese Amsterdam Hagadot, and was edited and produced by members of the Recife Sephardic Association.

Brazil loses the privilege of having Dani Dayan as Israeli ambassador, and New York wins a great liaison.

The money will also go towards encouraging aliyah, provide preparatory aliyah seminars, and finding full-time employment for new immigrants prior to their move to Israel.

The Brazilian government has temporarily stonewalled Israel’s nomination of former Head of the Judea and Samaria Council, Danny Dayan for the position of Israeli ambassador to the Brazil.

If Brazil does not accept Dani Dayan as an ambassador, it could set a precedent that would block "settlers" from the post elsewhere in the world.

The annual conference features 22 legislators from 18 countries and will attack the BDS movement.

Former head of the Judea and Samaria Regional Council Dani Dayan has been appointed as Israel Ambassador to Brazil.

More than a million citizens are protesting in the streets of Sao Paulo to demand the resignation of President Dilma Rousseff as she enters her second term.

Police documents reveal that Hezbollah has been providing the Brazilian gang with weapons while also acting as intermediaries in the sale of explosives that the PCC stole from Paraguay.

A Gaza-based PA official claims he wanted to travel to Brazil for the World Cup, but Israel has blocked him from going.

Pope Francis said at an on-board airplane news conference Monday  that he may visit Israel as early as next year. On his return flight from...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has close ties with other Latin American leaders who are friends of Iran.

This martial artist is 21, Jewish, Brazilian and a woman. Her name is Camila Minakawa. She also is a judo champ, so it is a lot safer for Israel that she is on our side – she made aliyah on Wednesday.

A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo.

Hailing from India, El Salvador, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Africa, the participants, ranging from their early 20s to 30s, with a background in entrepreneurial work, were part of an international conference called S.E.E. Israel. Organized by Jerusalem’s Hebrew University students as part of a StandWithUs public diplomacy training program, the conference connected the international visitors with young Israeli social innovators, enterprises and organizations.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s welcome on the sunny Ipanema beach in Rio was less than warm from an eclectic group of Jews, human rights activists, and homosexuals, who arrived Sunday to protest the Iranian president’s attendance at a UN summit on sustainable development.

Whatever little remains of the so-called Middle East peace process suffered yet another body blow this month, as two of the largest countries in South America formally recognized an independent Palestinian state.

I was in Brazil, speaking to the Jewish community of Sao Paulo, when the sad news of the petira of Irene Klass reached me. Many memories, many scenes, many conversations and experiences flashed through my mind. With Irene's passing, a whole era - a whole way of thinking, of values, of goals, of idealism - disappeared. Irene had a sense of mission and never allowed politics, petty jealousies or territorial considerations to influence her.

In 1636 Roger Williams, after having been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for what were considered radical religious views, settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay. He was joined by twelve other settlers at what he named Providence Plantation, due to his belief that God had sustained him and his followers.

My husband and I had been trying to have a baby for several years. We'd gone to specialists and come pretty close a few times.

The dreidel is one of the best-known games during Chanukah. This four-sided spinning top has four letters: Shin, Hey, Gimmel and Nun.

The dreidel is one of the best-known games during Chanukah. This four-sided spinning top has four letters: Shin, Hey, Gimmel and Nun.

"The Jewish history of Martinique and Guadeloupe is relatively short, spanning only about 60 years.