Opinion polls give ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a lead, with a first-round win sharpening focus on far-right incumbent's questioning of election's reliability

Yarmulkes share room with keffiyehs at inaugural Abrahamic Hummus Championship hosted by Hebraica Jewish club in Sao Paulo; Christian Arab team declared winners by jury

Nora Tausz Ronai started swimming competitively at age 69 and has won 13 gold medals, broken 12 world records at Masters World Championships - and just keeps swimming

Embassy stages food festival, fashion show; 'Our two peoples have nurtured a close relationship,' ambassador says

Clean-tech company Brenmiller, which uses crushed rocks to retain heat that can be released as steam, hot water or hot air, already active in Israel, US, Italy and Romania

Prominent music director was born in Poland in 1931, moved to Rio at 3; conducting career began suddenly during a 1959 ballet performance when scheduled conductor could not perform

'Do not destroy your trees by wielding the ax against them,' Rabbi Uri Lam says in widely shared sermon for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Born in Sao Paulo to Hungarian Jewish parents, he was imprisoned in six concentration camps, including Auschwitz; his family moved back to Europe before WWII

Brazilian president says totalitarian ideology should be 'unconditionally and permanently repudiated' after popular talk show host says country should have a Nazi party

Bruno Aiub fired after interview on his show, one of the most listened to in Brazil, also said 'if someone wants to be anti-Jewish, I think they have the right to be'