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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Mexican Jews

Newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, in Mexico City, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
June 5, 2024, 5:29 pm
Why Mexico’s center-right Jewish community didn’t vote for its first Jewish president
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who won the election this week, inherits a country split by her predecessor’s regime – with Jews sitting on the other side of the political divide
By Ariela Lopez
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks to supporters during a rally before stepping down as mayor in order to run for president, in Mexico City, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
September 26, 2023, 3:05 am
Everything you need to know about the Jewish woman leading Mexico’s presidential race
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is polling double-digits ahead of her closest competitor, and will mark 2 firsts for the US neighbor if she’s successful
By Jacob Kessler and Gabe Friedman
A still from 'My Mexican Shivah,' one of 10 films screening at the first-ever Mexican Jewish Film Festival in New York City on April 2, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 1, 2023, 1:27 pm
How a run-in with Guillermo del Toro led to NYC’s first Mexican Jewish Film Festival
After meeting the famed filmmaker at a cocktail reception, Deborah Koenigsberger Gutierrez had an epiphany about her identity – and created the new festival, which opens on April 2
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his daily morning press conference in Mexico City, June 6, 2022. (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
July 1, 2022, 5:12 am
Mexican president defiant after accusing Jewish critic of thinking like Hitler
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defends saying that columnist Carlos Alazraki has ‘Hitlerian’ ideas, after Jewish community denounces ‘unacceptable’ comparison
By AFP
Angelina Muñiz Huberman is one of a few Jews in the prestigious Mexican Academy of Language. (Courtesy of Huberman/ via JTA)
December 26, 2021, 4:06 am
Lauded Mexican writer’s novels explore her Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism
Told by her mother that the family were secret Jews, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman often writes about hidden identity, Iberian Jewry, and Jewish mysticism
By Alan Grabinsky
View of a statue in honor of "Women who fight" placed by feminist collectives at the roundabout of Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, from where the effigy of Christopher Columbus had been removed, in Mexico City, on October 7, 2021. (PEDRO PARDO / AFP)
October 13, 2021, 7:04 am
Removal of Columbus statue by Mexico mayor sparks debate on indigenous people
Replacement is a woman with clenched fist pointing at skyscrapers, to represent 5 centuries of ‘indigenous resistance,’ says Claudia Sheinbaum, granddaughter of Jewish immigrants
By Samir TOUNSI and Natalia Cano
Nataniel Sagi discusses the bee species he keeps at his sanctuary on Cozumel Island in Mexico, March 2021. (Julie Masis)
April 17, 2021, 4:10 am
In Mexico, Israeli expat makes a buzz with refuge for endangered stingless bees
Nataniel Sagi learned that local benign species were on the verge of extinction; he’s opened a conservation sanctuary and rescues colonies from deforestation
By Julie Masis
Gabriella Strigler Lou, from Mexico, will light a torch for Israel's 73rd Independence Day. (Courtesy)
April 10, 2021, 12:43 am
Mexican Jewish humanitarian volunteer to light Independence Day torch
Gabriella Strigler Lou, from the ‘Shalom Corps’ non-profit, chosen for honor at annual ceremony to serve as ‘inspiration for social action’ in Israel and abroad
By ToI Staff
Naian González Norvind as the title character in 'Leona,' directed by Isaac Cherem. (Photo by Diana Garay, courtesy of Fosforescente/ Menemsha Films)
February 12, 2021, 3:51 am
Debut film by Mexican duo, ‘Leona’ is way more than a Jewish ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Nuance, attention to detail, and ultimately, believability make for a gripping journey into Mexico’s insular Syrian Jewish community. Streaming Friday in virtual cinemas
By Jordan Hoffman
Celebrity chef Pati Jinich in the kitchen at a pecan hacienda, or farm, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (Courtesy Jinich)
December 11, 2020, 10:05 pm
TV chef brings Mexican latkes and jalapeno matzah ball soup north of border
Pati Jinich boasts a rich culinary heritage from grandparents who fled to Mexico after the Holocaust, and uses it to educate Americans — from the small screen to the White House
By Rich Tenorio
Circles on a lawn at the Centro Deportivo Israelita, Mexico City's Jewish community center, drawn to guide social distancing. (Alan Grabinsky/ JTA)
October 24, 2020, 8:10 am
Mexico City’s Deportivo center united its Jews; now the pandemic isolates them
For 70 years, the massive community center has been the hub of Jewish life for a diverse group of 50,000, but fears of contagion in the hard-hit country have left it nearly empty
By Alan Grabinsky
A cardboard coffin with a body sits on the roof rack of a car before it is taken away to be buried, outside the Teodoro Maldonado Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Monday, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Luis Perez)
April 25, 2020, 2:39 am
Latin American Jews suffer lockdown on religion as virus ravages communities
Jewish leaders describe delicate balance between government steps to halt COVID-19 and religious observance, even as citizens wait out shutdowns and shortages
By Rich Tenorio
'London Underground: Brixton Station and Victoria Line Staff,' 2019. (Courtesy of the artist and Art on the Underground, London; Anton Kern Gallery, New York/© Aliza Nisenbaum)
November 21, 2019, 4:11 am
Mexican-Jewish artist Aliza Nisenbaum on her colorful portraits of ‘the other’
Looking to foster human connection in an age plagued by social media, the painter uses color and her choice of subjects to compel viewers
By Alan Grabinsky
Former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 7, 2019, 8:26 pm
Ramat Gan names street after Mexican diplomat who challenged Jerusalem vote
Andres Roemer was fired as UNESCO envoy for refusing to vote in favor of a UN resolution that denied Jewish ties to the capital
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Mexican Jewish children at the Monte Sinai school, established in 1943 on Zacatecas Street in Mexico City by Jews from Damascus, Syria. (Zihronot Archive/Monte Sinai Community/via JTA)
February 2, 2019, 6:50 pm
Oscar frontrunner ‘Roma’ is set in a former Jewish neighborhood in Mexico City
Once an important center of Mexican-Jewish life, thousands of Syrian Jews created a small version of their Middle Eastern homeland in a new city’s streets and plazas
By Alan Grabinsky
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