At an event held at the Holocaust Museum, to a full room, the Association of Jewish Lawyers of the Argentine Republic (AAJRA) gave awards to president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti and the president of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation Mariano Borinsky for her outstanding work during 2024. At the same event, Dr. Diana Cohen Agrest -founder of an NGO that watches over issues of justice- and himself Judicial Council -the judge selection body- as an entity.
In turn, borinsky He thanked him for the award and in a brief speech he agreed to highlight the role of the victim in criminal proceedings, in line with what he had expressed minutes before. Cohen Agrestbased on the experience of his struggle for the loss of his son. The Cassation judge thanked all his colleagues, including some present, such as Carlos Mahiques, and highlighted the need to condemn any form of discrimination.
Rosatti was the one who extended the most in his speech, he announced the signing of a Supreme Court agreement with the Holocaust Museum and also highlighted the urgency of having tools to avoid any act of discrimination. True to his style, he made references to the National Constitutionespecially in the Preamble, which deals with the openness and inclusion of all the inhabitants of the world in the Argentine Nation. He associated it with his family experience – although not of Jewish origin -: they came from Genoa and upon arriving in the country they were received only for having “the will to inhabit it.” “This precept must remain in force and accept all religions, races, cultures and nationalities,” he said.
In turn, it went back to the 1994 reform where it was approved that the President did not necessarily have to belong to the majority cult. “We must understand what is important to the other, not what is important to us. And we have to do all this through dialogue to understand the other, to understand the other,” said Rosatti.
Likewise, the Minister of the Court highlighted the efforts of the Judicial Council in the implementation of courses and activities at the Judicial School, aimed at raising awareness among judges and officials about the seriousness of anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination.
Was present vice president of the Judicial Council, Agustina Díaz Cordero. The entity was also represented by the councilors Miguel Piedecasas, María Fernanda Vázquez and Diego Barroetaveña, as well as by the Secretary General of the Council, Mariano Pérez Roller, and the General Administrator of the Judiciary, Alexis Varady.
Among the guests were the vice president of the Chamber of Cassation, Daniel Petrone, and chamber member Carlos Mahiques. They also accompanied the Ambassador of Israel, Eyal Sela, Ambassador of France, Romain Nadal, President of the DAIA, Mauro Berenstein, President of the AMIA, Amos Linetzky, Rabbi Eliahu Amra, and President of the Holocaust Museum, Marcelo Mindlin.
Likewise, the president of the Association of Jewish Lawyers of the Argentine Republic, Hernán Najenson, the Secretary of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolf, and the president of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital, Ricardo Gil Lavedra, participated.
Source: Ambito
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