This was in 2009 for Rosh Hashana
Argentina has the seventh largest Jewish community in the world
1) Israel
2) USA
3) France
4) Canada
5) Argentina
6) Russia
7) Argentina
Even Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela have notable Jewish populations.
Viva Los Turcos: Latin America and the Arab connection
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Despite the obstacles, Latin Americans of Middle Eastern descent seem to have been disproportionately successful. Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in the world, according to the Forbes rich list, is a Mexican of Lebanese descent (Slim is a hispanicised version of Salim). Slim is not the only Lebanese Latin American gracing the pages of business magazines, Carlos Ghosn, the current CEO of Renault and Nissan, is a Brazilian of Lebanese descent who was Fortune magazine’s man of the year in 2003.
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MY NOTE: AN ARAB LATIN MUSIC VIDEO…
According to Colombian writer Luis Fayed, whilst the christian supicion of arabs’ endures in Latin America as in all parts of the world, Latin America is probably the place where the Arab community has achieved the most “complete” integration of anywhere in the world. The Lebanese in Colombia feel Colombian not Lebanese, and thus do not feel the need to write about the immigrant experiences as opposed to “Arab immigrants in Europe, or (people) of other nationalities, will always write about how they’ve integrated (into the new society). They always write about that, and the difficulties they’re having, how they’ve accommodated to society. They talk about justices and injustices … They never stop having the feeling of being from (elsewhere),” he said.
The Arabic world has a long history of cultural exchange with Spain that later expanded to Latin America and continues to this day. The next time you see a girl belly dancing in a reggaeton video or a Latin American politician with an arabic last name, you can put it down to brave Middle Eastern immigrants who in spite of difficulties and discrimination have gone on to fulfil their Latin American dream.
Arabs do better in Latin America than they do in the Arab world.
El jefe de Estado venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, durante un acto como parte de su Gobierno de calle en el estado Miranda (centro), destacó que Venezuela es “un pueblo de corazón abierto, y por eso rechaza los ataques de Israel contra Palestina y Siria”.
The Chief of the Venezuelan State (president), Nicolas Maduro, during a Government event from street in Miranda State (center), declared that Venezuela is “an open-hearted people, and therefore rejects Israel’s attacks against Palestine and Syria.”.
I do not know what Palestine had to do with yesterday’s Israeli attacks on Syria, but the President just threw that in there for good measure.
This is coming from Venezuela, by a President who was hand picked by Hugo Chavez to succeed him. Chavez had set up a government policy which was very hostile to Israel.
Apparently, Mr. Maduro, is following in Chavez’s anti-Israel footsteps.
You would have to expect this from a Venezuela under a Chavista president.
Ecuador – under a government similar to Venezuela’s – also criticized Israel.
000 – TASL – The Awful Spanish Language
There is a famous essay by Mark Twain, called THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE.
Only a Genius (with a capital G) like Twain could have made the horrors of learning a foreign language so funny. He detailed the absurdities (at least to an English speaker) of German grammar, and structure; and he did so hilariously.
THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE – Mark Twain
In the German it is true that by some oversight of the inventor of the language, a Woman is a female; but a Wife (Weib) is not — which is unfortunate. A Wife, here, has no sex; she is neuter; so, according to the grammar, a fish is he, his scales are she, but a fishwife is neither. To describe a wife as sexless may be called under-description; that is bad enough, but over-description is surely worse.
It has been forty years that I have tried to learn Spanish. I still struggle. I think it may have lopped off 40 IQ points from my brain.
Like Twain, I am starting a series of articles about the horrors of Spanish.
Anybody who has ever taken a course in Spanish should appreciate this.