Pole comes down as Alexandre Andrei Mirocznik is playing with friends; Hebraica Club president denies accident caused by maintenance problem

Memorial also commemorates non-Jewish victims of Nazis; main exhibition includes mementos of those persecuted in Holocaust, database of survivors who built new life in Brazil

Jewish groups demand apology after Brazilian-Israeli banker Ilan Goldfajn accused on TV of dual loyalty, in tirade referring to Jewish ties to international finance systems

Today, young people across Brazil recognize Nissim Ourfali, a Jewish boy who in 2012 became one of the country's first memes and an inspiration to DJs countrywide

Latin America expert James Green predicts moderate policies from incoming president, whom half the country's Jews supported

The community is torn between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who loves Israel - and ultranationalists, or Lula, a far-left social activist sympathetic to the Palestinian cause

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

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

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