Opened in 1907 as one of the first in Argentina, the synagogue is located in the La Boca area, the city’s original port, where its first European Jewish immigrants settled.
Overrun for Decades by Squatters, Buenos Aires Synagogue Is Reclaimed
Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, backed by an order of law issued by a municipal judge.
