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In this February 2006 file photo, an Uruguayan worker directs the salvage the eagle of World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez, File)
June 20, 2023, 6:06 am
Uruguay still stuck with Nazi eagle after president pulls peace dove plan
Vexed by 800-pound relic recovered from sunken ship, Luis Lacalle Pou suggested melting it into a peace dove, a plan decried as akin to turning Auschwitz into a nudist colony
By Juan Melamed
Uruguayan workers salvage the eagle of World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay, February 10, 2006. (AP/Marcelo Hernandez/File)
August 18, 2017, 11:34 am
Uruguay weighs fate of giant Nazi eagle salvaged from sea
Officials poll Jewish community leaders and others over what to do with 800-pound statue taken from German ship, including possibility of selling it to raise money for army
By Leonardo Haberkorn
Punta del Este (Wikimedia Commons, Daniel Stonek, CC BY 3.0)
December 29, 2016, 12:04 am
Uruguay opens $20 million security center fueled by Israeli technology
Punta del Este upgrades security with high definition surveillance cameras and License Plate Recognition devices
By JTA
Illustrative photo of security forces standing guard near the World Trade Center Montevideo, which houses offices of the Israeli embassy, on January 8, 2015 (AFP/Mario Goldman)
December 21, 2016, 8:16 pm
Non-Jewish woman suffers anti-Semitic attack in Uruguay
Victim assaulted by a man who allegedly broke her teeth and yelled ‘All the Jews have to die’
By JTA
David Fremd, center, was stabbed to death in a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Paysandu, Uruguay, on March 8, 2016. (Facebook)
March 9, 2016, 2:15 am
Uruguayan Jew stabbed to death in suspected anti-Semitic attack
Local businessman David Fremd, 54, attacked by knife-wielding man who reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’
By Ilan Ben Zion
Nazi memorabilia in a Uruguay shop 'Kamuflados en Kombate' (YouTube screenshot)
January 12, 2016, 4:36 pm
Uruguayan store investigated for selling Nazi-related items
Montevideo shop offers concentration camp uniform, copies of ‘Mein Kampf’
By JTA
Illustrative photo of security forces standing guard near the World Trade Center Montevideo, which houses offices of the Israeli embassy, on January 8, 2015 (AFP/Mario Goldman)
February 6, 2015, 7:55 am
Iranian diplomat in Uruguay said linked to Israeli Embassy blast
Montevideo expels envoy for involvement in bombing in early January
By ToI Staff
The problem of 'agunot,' or chained women, is international (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash 90)
January 23, 2014, 1:13 pm
Rabbinate of Uruguay to require rabbinic prenup
To avoid get refusal, Uruguay rabbis won’t perform marriages or register certificates of Judaism to families without prenup
By JTA
Buford Rogers (photo credit: Courtesy:Chippewa County)
May 7, 2013, 6:03 am
Small town terror attack thwarted, FBI says
Man arrested in Minnesota after authorities find bombs in his mobile home, references to membership in anti-government militia
By Amy Forliti
February 7, 2013, 3:50 pm
Uruguayan town offers sun, sand and Shabbat
With the South American summer in full swing, Punte del Este is enjoying its status as a magnet for Jewish tourists
By Diego Melamed
The fate of three students in the first graduating class of Grodno’s Tarbut Gymnasium (pictured with six of their teachers and the principal) remains a mystery. (Courtesy of Ruth Marcus via JTA)
December 30, 2012, 5:03 pm
Class photo preserves links broken by the Holocaust
An Israeli retiree hopes to learn the fate of three students at a school in Grodno, whose Jewish community was largely scattered and destroyed
By Hillel Kuttler
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