Brazilian Carnival parade featured costumes with swastikas
A leading Brazilian Jewish official gave a thumbs up to a local Carnival performance that featured swastikas and mirrored a spectacle that raised eyebrows in the 1990s.
Brazilian Jewish students excused from exams, classes on Shabbat and holidays
A new Brazilian law allows Jewish and non-Jewish students to skip school exams and classes for religious reasons.
The vibrant Jewish community of Curitiba, Brazil
Although Curitiba has a very small Jewish community – it’s a very vibrant one. There are two synagogues, three Jewish cemeteries and it is home to the only Holocaust museum in the country.
Converts could bolster Brazilian Jewry: activist
Of Brazil’s 200 million people, about 120,000 are Jews, just .06 per cent of the population. If not augmented and strengthened, its future is unsustainable
Seven things to know about the Jews of Brazil
You might know about the Jewish Olympians arriving in Rio, but what about the remaining 120,000 or so Jews who call Brazil home? Who exactly are they? Here’s what you need to know
Jewish Facebook campaign finds shelter for homeless Israeli woman
“We could never leave a Jew on the street. It’s about giving dignity to a human being”
Brazil to honour Israeli victims of Munich massacre at Rio Olympics
The ceremony will feature the widows of weightlifter Yossef Romano, who was kidnapped, castrated and murdered by the terrorists, and Andre Spitzer, a fencing coach
Brazilian Jews making aliyah in record numbers
A record number of Brazilian Jews immigrated to Israel last year
Fleeing recession and violence, Brazilian Jews moving to Israel in record numbers
Immigration to Israel from Brazil has more than doubled in the past four years
