Argentina's new foreign minister sworn in on Torah

(JNS) — Argentine President Javier Milei on Tuesday officially appointed Geraldo Werthein, a Jewish businessman and former ambassador to the United States, as the country’s foreign minister.

Werthein is a former Argentine ambassador to the United States whose ancestors escaped Jewish persecution in Russia in the early years of the 20th century. He took office at an inauguration ceremony at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, known as the Cancillería.

Unusually for the predominantly Catholic country, the inauguration featured a Torah, on which Werthein swore to upho...