By COLlive reporter
Argentina elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday, known for his bold views on the economy battered by inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty.
Official results have not been released, but his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, conceded in a speech.
The newly elected president is outspoken about his affinity for the Jewish people and his support for Israel. In past interviews, he said he regularly studies Torah and has once told the story of Queen Esther to make a point during a speech.
A recent article claims Milei received the support of influential businessmen such as Eduardo Elsztain and the Sielecki family, with the assistance of Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt, Head Shliach of Argentina. The two were photographed at the Latam Economic Forum two months ago.
According to the article in La Politica, Milei studies Torah with Rabbi Axel Wahnish and wants to convert to Judaism.
Last July, he visited the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, New York. In a TV interview about the visit, Milei explained how the Rebbe’s farbrengens on Shabbos were memorized by a team of rabbis (choizrim) who would transcribe it after Shabbos. He said he had the merit of meeting one of them.
Milei has promised that one of his first government measures will be to move the Argentine embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as President Trump did.
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The chozer he’s referring to is Rabbi Simon Jacobson, whom he met a few months ago and who gave him a signed book of Toward a Meaningful Life, which is the book of the Rebbe’s teachings he mentions.
Can we please follow the Rebbe’s lead and not let ourselves get carried away with power and fame?
Instead, let’s stay laser focused only on fulfilling Rotzon HoElyon as taught through our Nosi Hador until we break through this terrible golus once and for all?
Drop the PR and stick to Emes without concern for Mah Yoimru hagoyim.
These events alone is enough to prove Ein Oid Milvadoi.
This is too miraculous to come from kochi veetzem yodi
With the the help of hashem, Milei will Make Argentina Great Again!
He opposes abortion and promotes Cultural Marxism.
And guess who controls Wikipedia?
The global Marxists themselves!
It ain’t toras Moshe that’s for sure
Even if we grant that Wikipedia is correct (and, as the previous commenter said, that’s not necessarily so), read it again. It says that he promotes the “Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory,” which is to say, he blames cultural Marxism for a lot of the world’s problems, precisely the opposite of your claim.
(The tag “conspiracy theory” nowadays means little more than “inconvenient facts that quite often turn out to be true” – compare the “conspiracy theory” that gas furnaces were going to be banned with the actual facts of the government doing just that, to take but one recent example.)
he is against communism and lefties
The Rebbe also opposed abortion.
another country’s leader who was also close to Chabad – Putin.
Maybe it would be better if he focused on the sheva mitzvos instead of trying to convert. It would have a better influence on his country and if he converted and did wrong, the populace could blame the Jews which might not be good.
He doesnt want to convert becouse he says then he cant be president, he wont be able to work on shabbos