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Old September 21st, 2023 #121
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Claudia Sheinbaum is on track to become Mexico’s first Jewish and woman president


BY JACOB KESSLER AND GABE FRIEDMAN SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 5:59 PM



Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City, Sept. 6, 2023. (Claudia Cruz/AFP via Getty Images)

(JTA) — The way things stand now, Mexico is headed to elect its first woman president next year. The two leading candidates in the polls for the 2024 election are Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City’s former mayor, and Xóchitl Gálvez, a senator representing the center-right opposition bloc.

The polls point to another first: Sheinbaum, currently the frontrunner, could become the country’s first Jewish president, too.

Earlier this month, Sheinbaum, 61, was announced as the candidate for the left-wing Morena party, which has been led by the country’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Since then, her momentum has only grown — a poll taken by the El Pais newspaper has 47% of voters supporting her, while Gálvez, her closest competitor, notched 30%.
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But some controversy also brewed during her time as mayor. Despite ​​expanding public transport, there were at least a dozen accidents, some deadly, in the city’s subway system. Critics say she hasn’t done enough to fix the city’s crumbling infrastructure.

Sheinbaum also faced controversy involving infrastructure disaster as head of Tlalpan. In 2017, during an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in total, an elementary school collapsed in Sheinbaum’s district, killing 19 children and six adults. An apartment had been built on top of the school, destabilizing it, and some criticized her for allowing district officials to approve the construction permits. She apologized for what happened, but some parents of the deceased children still hold her accountable.
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Sources told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2018 that Sheinbaum feels connected to the history of Jews in political activism, but not as much so to the religion or its traditions. Like many secular, leftist Jews in Mexico, her parents moved to the south of the city to be closer to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a hotbed of political activism. She told a group of Jewish women voters during her mayoral campaign in 2018 that she was a proud Jewish woman.
https://www.jta.org/2023/09/20/globa...oman-president
 
Old November 22nd, 2023 #122
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Javier Milei, right-wing economist with a passion for Judaism, is elected president of Argentina


BY JUAN MELAMED AND GABE FRIEDMAN NOVEMBER 19, 2023 8:20 PM

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Javier Milei, a colorful right-wing “anarcho-capitalist” who has said he would like to convert to Judaism, was elected president of Argentina on Sunday.
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In an interview with Spain’s El Pais newspaper over the summer, Milei talked about his study with Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish, who heads ACILBA, an Argentine-Moroccan Jewish community based in Buenos Aires.
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He is also an outspoken supporter of Israel, having stated before the start of Israel’s war on Oct. 7 that he would like to make an early diplomatic trip to Jerusalem and to move Argentina’s embassy to that city. In one of his final public appearances before the election, Milei was seen waving an Israeli flag among a large crowd in Rosario.
https://www.jta.org/2023/11/19/globa...t-of-argentina
 
Old November 28th, 2023 #123
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President-Elect Javier Milei Travels to NYC Together With 'George Soros Protege' to Meet With Chabad-Lubavitch, Visit Rebbe's Grave


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President-elect Javier Milei traveled to New York City together with "a protege of George Soros" and donned a kippah to visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson for his first foreign trip after his surprise victory.

"President-elect Javier Milei of Argentina flew to New York this morning to pray at the Ohel, the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory," Chabad.org said Monday on X.
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"For his trip to New York, Milei traveled with a few members of his future cabinet, as well as Marc Stanley, the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, and Gerardo Werthein, an Argentinean Jewish businessman who is rumored to be in the running to become Argentina’s ambassador in Washington, D.C.," JTA reported.

"Another Argentinean Jewish businessman accompanied him to the rabbi's grave. Eduardo Elsztain is chairman and chief executive of IRSA, Argentina's largest real estate company, which manages the largest shopping malls in Buenos Aires. Elsztain, a protege of the Jewish financier George Soros, has also supported Chabad social programs and Jewish youth-related projects in Argentina."
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Old December 7th, 2023 #124
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First Jewish university in South America to open in Buenos Aires next year


BY JUAN MELAMED DECEMBER 5, 2023 7:53 PM

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — South America is getting its first Jewish university next year.

The Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires — which is affiliated with the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Conservative movement’s flagship — obtained legal approval last month to establish the Isaac Abarbanel Jewish University Institute. The school will confer diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in subjects ranging from Jewish and religious studies to ethics to ancient manuscripts.

“This makes Argentina better by allowing it to enrich its diversity and, at the same time, expand the scope of its academic proposal to other regions of the world,” said Jaime Perczyk, Argentina’s education minister, in a statement on Nov. 16. Rabbi Ariel Stofenmacher, the rector of the rabbinical seminary, said the university will be “a lighthouse beacon for Latin America.”

One other Jewish university exists in the rest of Latin America: the Hebrew University of Mexico, which is located in Mexico City and run by an Argentine rabbi, Daniel Fainstein. The Latin American Rabbinical Seminary has had a continuing education institute under the Abarbanel name since 1978, but it has not conferred degrees titles.
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The seminary is named after American rabbi Marshall Meyer, a New York native who worked to revitalize the Conservative movement in Buenos Aires from 1958 to 1984. In 1962, he created the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, which ordains rabbis in Argentina and throughout Latin America. It has ordained approximately 110 Conservative rabbis since 1972.
https://www.jta.org/2023/12/05/globa...ires-next-year
 
Old December 11th, 2023 #125
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Javier Milei cites Hanukkah story, gives menorah to Zelensky during inauguration as Argentina’s president


BY JUAN MELAMED DECEMBER 10, 2023 2:40 PM



Argentina's Javier Milei hands a Hanukkah menorah to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky during Milei's inaugural ceremonies in Buenos Aires, Dec. 10, 2023. (Screenshot from Argentinean national TV broadcast)

(JTA) — Javier Milei invoked the story of the Maccabees in his inaugural address as Argentina’s president on Sunday, extending the right-wing populist’s prominent fascination with Judaism as he celebrated his own improbable victory.

“It is not by chance that this assumption takes place in the holiday of Hanukkah, the festival of light, and that the same celebrates the true essence of freedom,” Milei said during his speech on the steps of the parliament building in Buenos Aires. “The war of the Maccabees is the symbol of the victory of the weak over the powerful, of the few over the many, of the light over darkness and overall of the truth over untruth.”

Milei, 53, defied expectations when he was elected last month. A self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” who was the most right-wing of the five candidates, he ascended rapidly over the last year as he assailed the outgoing government, saying that its policies had fueled unemployment and inflation.
https://www.jta.org/2023/12/10/globa...inas-president



 
Old December 11th, 2023 #126
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Who is Eduardo Elzstain?: the famous wallet behind Milei




Eduardo Elzstain, the Jewish businessman who finances President Javier Milei.

Finally, the elected president of Argentina took office and at his inauguration those who have done everything possible to achieve the position of Javier Milei could not be missing .

In addition to several businessmen, including the owner of Techint, there are several businessmen from the Jewish community who have put up all the money necessary to see Milei in Rivadavia's chair.
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Old February 6th, 2024 #127
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Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, heads to Israel on his first overseas diplomatic trip


BY JUAN MELAMED FEBRUARY 6, 2024 6:01 AM



Argentinian President Javier Milei speaks at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust museum in Buenos Aires, Jan. 26, 2024. (Juan Melamed)

(JTA) — Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has traveled to Israel to fulfill his foreign policy pledges — and his own personal religious aspirations.

Milei, an avowed philosemite who was elected in November, will travel with his rabbi-turned-ambassador and will meet with families of Argentinians held hostage in Gaza.

Milei is the first Latin American president to visit Israel since Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7.

The resulting war in Gaza has fueled widespread anti-Israeli sentiment in Latin America, including in several countries with left-wing leaders. But Milei, who calls himself an “anarcho-capitalist” and who has advanced a slew of right-wing policies since being sworn in, is following through on his vow to realign Argentina’s foreign policy as close to the United States and Israel, rather than to its socialist neighbors.
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Milei’s personal connection to Judaism figured prominently on the campaign trail. He is Catholic but studies with Wahnish in Buenos Aires, has quoted Torah passages in rallies and walked out on stage for a campaign event to a recording of a shofar. He has said he wishes to convert to Judaism but does not see Shabbat observance as compatible with running the country as president.

During a visit to New York City in November, shortly after the election, he traveled to the grave of the Lubavitcher rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a pilgrimage site for some Jews who believe there is special significance to prayers said there. He also cited the Hanukkah story and gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a menorah during his inauguration in December.
https://www.jta.org/2024/02/06/globa...iplomatic-trip
 
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Everything you need to know about the Jewish woman leading Mexico’s presidential race


Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is polling double-digits ahead of her closest competitor, and will mark 2 firsts for the US neighbor if she’s successful

By JACOB KESSLER and GABE FRIEDMAN
26 September 2023, 3:05 am

JTA — The way things stand now, Mexico is headed to elect its first woman president next year. The two leading candidates in the polls for the 2024 election are Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City’s former mayor, and Xóchitl Gálvez, a senator representing the center-right opposition bloc.

The polls point to another first: Sheinbaum, currently the frontrunner, could become the country’s first Jewish president, too.

Earlier this month, Sheinbaum, 61, was announced as the candidate for the left-wing Morena party, which has been led by the country’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Since then, her momentum has only grown — a poll taken by the El Pais newspaper has 47% of voters supporting her, while Gálvez, her closest competitor, notched 30%.
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If elected, Sheinbaum would join the ranks of the few Jews outside Israel who have been elected to their country’s highest office, including Janet Jagan of Guyana, Ricardo Maduro of Honduras, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Sheinbaum would also likely be the first Jewish person in history to lead a country of more than 50 million people.

Here is a primer on Sheinbaum and how her Jewishness has become part of the campaign.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/everyt...idential-race/
 
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