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Culture Would you put jalapeños in matzo ball soup? This Mexican Jewish cookbook says, ‘sí’
New 'Sabor Judio' cookbook delivers recipes with New World flavors and Old World traditions
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Culture This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Culture Mexican Jews love their country. But do they love the next president? It’s complicated
Claudia Sheinbaum is Jewish, but her Jewish constituents care about politics, not identity
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News Exclusiva: ¿Sobrevivió la familia de Claudia Sheinbaum al Holocausto y lo mantuvo en secreto?
Una investigación del Forward descubre que la madre de la presidenta electa nació en Bulgaria, no en México
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News Exclusive: Mexico’s new Jewish president has not been telling the truth about her family’s Holocaust story
A Forward investigation finds the Jewish president-elect’s mother was born in Bulgaria, not Mexico, as she has claimed
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Fast Forward Mexico just elected a Jewish president. What other countries can claim Jewish heads of state?
Besides Israel, four other countries are led by Jews, or those with Jewish heritage
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Opinion I’m a Mexican Jew. I wish Claudia Sheinbaum would embrace the complexity of our shared heritage
Sheinbaum, who will be the first woman and first Jew to serve as Mexico's president, has rarely addressed her Jewishness in public
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News Claudia Sheinbaum elected president of Mexico, breaking barriers as woman and Jew
Sheinbaum’s election makes Mexico by far the biggest country to have a Jewish head of state
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Fast Forward Man who attempted terror attack on Jewish New Yorkers in 2022 sentenced to 10 years in prison
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