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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Alan Grabinsky

Alan Grabinsky

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
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
In this detail of an image from his haggadah, artist Leon Fenster depicts the Israelites as children dressed in Beijing school uniforms. (Courtesy of Fenster/ via JTA)
March 22, 2020, 6:10 am
Release of Passover haggadah encapsulating Beijing Jewry delayed due to virus
London-born artist Leon Fenster planned to unveil the years-in-the-making 180-page text illustrating Jewish history in China’s transient capital, but was forced to leave the city
By Alan Grabinsky
Colombians celebrate Dia de las Velitas at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Bogota, December 7, 2018. (Lokman Ilhan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 24, 2019, 3:03 am
Colombia’s Day of the Little Candles looks an awful lot like Hanukkah
Dia de las Velitas dates back to 1854, when Pope Pius set the immaculate conception as Catholic dogma, but some scholars attribute aspects of the holiday to crypto-Jews
By Alan Grabinsky
'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
Ilan Stavans and his new book, 'Seventh Heaven.' (Courtesy of Stavans/JTA Montage)
November 10, 2019, 2:28 am
A different ‘promised land’: New book journeys through Jewish Latin America
With ‘The Seventh Heaven,’ so-called czar of Latino culture Ilan Stavans sheds light on a diverse community whose own members don’t always know its nuances
By Alan Grabinsky
Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrives at federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 18, 2018. Fernandez had been ordered to testify as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
October 19, 2019, 5:00 am
Argentina’s Jews split as ex-president Kirchner looks to make political comeback
Former leader left office under cloud of corruption charges and is accused of obstructing probe into AMIA bombing, but many in the Jewish community agree with her left-wing agenda
By Alan Grabinsky
A man walks over the rubble after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (AFP/Ali Burafi)
July 17, 2019, 11:35 pm
Rescued twice: The archive that survived the Holocaust and the AMIA attack
On the 25th anniversary of the deadly bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, volunteers recall rescuing a precious piece of history from the rubble
By Alan Grabinsky
Mozaika draws hundreds of visitors to its weekly events on Jewish culture. (Toldot/Instagram/via JTA)
July 15, 2019, 3:13 am
Barcelona’s oldest house is now a Jewish cultural center
Attracting hundreds of visitors a month, Casa Adret is a lodestone for contemporary Jewish identity in a city that faces obstacles as it seeks to restore a lost heritage
By Alan Grabinsky
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
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first Jewish mayor of Mexico City, speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, Aug. 1, 2018. (Carlos Tischler/Getty Images via JTA)
December 7, 2018, 12:41 pm
Mexico City’s Jewish mayor wants to be identified by policies, not ethnicity
Like many other liberal, secular politicians around the world, Claudia Sheinbaum rarely identifies publicly as Jewish
By Alan Grabinsky
Rescuers from the Mexican-Jewish aid agency Cadena inspect damage in Mexico City following the earthquake last year. (Courtesy of Cadena/via JTA)
September 24, 2018, 5:05 pm
A year after the Mexico City quake, many Jewish organizations still have no home
The community has seen numerous changes since the tremblor that killed 300, with perhaps the biggest being to Cadena, the first responders now rebuilding homes across the country
By Alan Grabinsky
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