San Paulo

São Paulo creates Brazil-Israel Parliamentary Front, forming strategic alliance

The city was the second in Brazil to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism in March 2024, following Rio de Janeiro.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Aerial view of houses in a wooded area in the Pinheiros neighborhood, Sao Paulo, Brazil, taken on September 5, 2023.
A man checks his mobile phone as a woman riding a bike passes next to a big Brazilian flag in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 28, 2018.

Brazilian veteran Jewish journalist Salomao Schvartzman dies at 85

Schvartzman, who spoke only Yiddish with his parents, fought relentlessly against anti-Semitism. He considered coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in 1961 a highlight of his career.

|ByMARCUS GILBAN/JTA