This is the Forward’s coverage of the country of Mexico, home to a population of Hispanic Jews.
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News 4 Things About Andrés Roemer, the Mexican Diplomat Who Stood Up for Israel
UNESCO’s controversial vote to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Western Wall has flared tempers even among the most diplomatic of sorts. Following the United Nations’ cultural agency’s decision, Mexico’s ambassador to the organization, Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski, walked out of the session in protest of his country’s support for the resolution….
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News Mexican Jews Watch and Worry as ‘Threat’ Donald Trump Jets In
As Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to meet with the nation’s president, the country’s small Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on the U.S. presidential hopeful. “We are looking forward to seeing what results his visit will have,” said Marcos Metta, president of the Alianza de Monte Sinai, a Mexico City Jewish organization,…
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Fast Forward Mexicans Look to Jews as Model for Fighting Back Against Attacks by Donald Trump
Mexican immigrants are looking to an unlikely model in their fight to push back against attacks by Donald Trump: Jews. Leaders of the Hispanic community are stepping up ties with Jewish groups, which they view as a potential paradigm for increasing their influence and political heft, especially as they have come under withering attack by…
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Opinion In a Back Alley of Tijuana
It was 1964 in Southern California. I was 23, in a committed relationship, and even though I was using birth control, I found myself pregnant. I had vowed I would never have an abortion. Not because of religious or moral issues but because a 15-year-old high school friend of mine had died from an illegal…
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Fast Forward Mexico’s Foreign Minister Compares Anti-Mexican Sentiment in US to Anti-Semitism
Mexico’s foreign minister compared anti-Mexican “bigotry” in the United States to anti-Semitism in an address to the American Jewish Committee. Claudia Ruiz Massieu won sustained applause with her remarks Monday at the AJC’s Global Forum in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post . “Let me say loud and clear, fighting anti-Semitism, like standing up to anti-Mexican sentiment,…
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Fast Forward Mexican Lawmaker Uses Slur About Jewish Leader
Mexican congressman Jorge Romero was accused of using anti-Semitic language when referring to the head of the country’s Jewish umbrella organization and human rights activist Salomon Achar Achar. Romero’s statement calling the Jewish Community Central Committee’s president “a f***|ing Jew,” was recorded by Grupo Imagen Multimedia radio news service, The Excelsior newspaper reported late last…
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Fast Forward Mexico’s President Tells Immigrants To Resist Trump by Uniting — Like the Jews
President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico called on Mexicans in the United States to follow the Jewish community’s example and unite to defend their interests in an urgent effort to defeat Donald Trump. The call was announced by the newly appointed Mexican ambassador to the United States, Carlos Manuel Sada, during an interview last week…
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Opinion Why Jews of Color Like Me Feel Unsafe After AIPAC’s Applause for Trump
When I heard that Donald Trump would be speaking at the AIPAC conference, I hoped that all Jews would recognize him for the racist demagogue that he is and reject him. Instead he gave his speech, delivered his red meat talking points on Israel, and by and large the crowd applauded him. Kippot with Trump’s…
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