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Conservative Jews in San Martín de los Andes inaugurated their city's first-ever synagogue, and have already doubled the number of locals and tourists coming for holiday events

Patagonia, Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region, has been a haven for Israeli backpackers, vacationers from Buenos Aires and, in the 20th century, Nazi war criminals. What the scenic territory hasn’t had for nearly 40 years is a new synagogue. That has changed in the last year, as a group… Read More »

(JTA) — Patagonia, Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region, has been a haven for Israeli backpackers, vacationers from Buenos Aires and, in the 20th century, Nazi war criminals.

There are no reliable estimates of the number of Jews living in Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region. But there are more than communal leaders realized.

The synagogue is just the second Jewish institution in the 400,000-square-mile Patagonia region.