Square in Buenos Aires named after Rabbi Marshall Meyer

Buenos Aires has honored the memory of an American rabbi who spent much of his career in Argentina. A square in the northern part of the city now honors Rabbi Marshall Meyer, a fervent fighter for human and civil rights who resisted the Argentine junta, helped to get political prisoners released from jail, and later returned to New York City to revitalize the congregation B’nai Jeshurun there. Meyer died 11 years ago. At a ceremony to inaugurated the "Plaza Rabino Marshall Meyer", city officials and Jewish leaders praised the rabbi's courage and said that he had even risked his own life in order to help others.