This is the Forward’s coverage of the country of Mexico, home to a population of Hispanic Jews.
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Culture One jalapeno cheddar with schmear — inside Mexico City’s hand-rolled bagel renaissance
Remote workers, a long-standing Jewish community and COVID lockdowns sparked a bagel boom
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Books Jewish refugees stranded in Hollywood, and 4 other books you need to know this month
Plus, an author's case for a standing cocktail hour
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Culture Was a Jewish soldier the only man to get out of the Alamo alive?
Louis Moses Rose: Coward or survivor? Fact or fiction? Jewish … or not?
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News Baja California cartel violence a rare threat for small but tightknit Jewish community
Cartel-fueled violence shut down Friday night services in Tijuana this past weekend, but services resumed Saturday
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Culture ‘A David and Goliath story’: The Jewish history of Cinco de Mayo
The 1862 Battle of Puebla paved the way for Mexico to become a haven for Jews fleeing persecution.
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Culture When Pancho Villa attacked the U.S. in 1916, he was after the head of this Jewish merchant
When Pancho Villa and his troops raided Columbus, New Mexico in 1916—one of the only times in the 20th century that a foreign army ever invaded the continental United States— the famous Mexican revolutionary had only one goal: to bring back the head of a Lithuanian-born Jewish merchant named Sam Ravel. Villa’s men ransacked the…
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News Letter from Mexico City: ‘We barely recognize one another’
At first, things were very calm. Nobody seemed to be worried. The crisis was happening at the other side of the planet, very far away, in China, and starting to hit Italy, but in Mexico City we were safe. There were 7 people sick with coronavirus. Mexicans were special and would not to be harmed….
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Fast Forward FBI: Militia Group At The Border Was Training To Kill Soros, Obama and Clinton
The leader of a militia that has been detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border once said that the group was “training to assassinate George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama,” NBC News reported. Larry Mitchell Hopkins was arrested Saturday on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. He appeared in…
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