Jewish & World News

An advertising agency has created what it's calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water. The billboard—a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technology—was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima.

A 22-year-old Israeli woman was killed in a rafting accident near Cusco, Peru, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday. The young woman was traveling with Israeli friends who were not injured in the accident. The woman's family was notified of her death and the Foreign Ministry is currently handling the transfer of her body to Israel.

Peru’s Jewish community has urged authorities to stop the activities of a nascent neo-Nazi party headed by an anti-Semitic Amerindian. According to The Guardian, the Jewish community of Peru said in a statement that it rejected the “open expression of anti-Semitic racism” of the Andean Peru National Socialism Movement -- a far-right group that is currently attempting to gather enough signatures to be registered as a political party.