Tag: México
From China to Mexico, Message at Chabad Women’s Banquet Was Love
Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib compares U.S.-Mexico border situation to Gaza Strip
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over the weekend compared the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border to that of Gaza and Israel.
“Do you know what I saw at the border? I saw Gaza,” said Tlaib, the...
Israeli company wins bid to help secure US border
Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems announced on Wednesday that its U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a $26 million contract by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to install a multi-sensor system to monitor...
Movie Review: ‘Roma’
Roma, a Spanish language film, was written and directed by Oscar winning, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. It is an engaging and powerful story set in Mexico City from 1970 to 1971. Mexico was in...
Simon Wiesenthal Center Demands Citibank Stop Underwriting Roger Waters’ Anti-Semitic Mexico Tour
Al respecto preguntamos al Dr. Gelblung sobre esto y contestó que esperamos que Citibank Central intervenga dado que es intolerable que alguien le pague a Waters por su fanatismo antisemita.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is...
The Jewish-American Writer Who Transformed U.S.-Mexico Relations
The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is currently highlighting the life and writing of Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born, American Jewish writer. Brenner was born in 1905 in Aguascalientes, and spent the majority of her...
Learning to Live Together – La Ciudad de las Ideas 2017: Beyond X
At the occasion of World Philosophy Day 2017, UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme will also associate itself with the 2017 Ciudad de las Ideas, organized by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Andrés Roemer, in...
These Bay Area retirees are finding tranquility, and Judaísmo, in Mexico
Before moving to Mexico, Michael Zimmerman gave a lot of thought to the idea of uprooting 35 years of living in San Anselmo. For 20 of those years, he was an active member of...
World Jewish relief launches Mexico earthquake appeal
The community’s leading humanitarian charity has launched an appeal to help those affected by a deadly earthquake in Mexico claimed more than 200 lives.
World Jewish Relief has initiated an emergency fundraising appeal to support...
Secret Crypto-Jewish diaries rediscovered in New York, displayed in Mexico City
After renouncing Judaism, Luis de Carvajal was granted mercy: Instead of being burned alive, he was tied to a pole, noose around his neck, and slowly asphyxiated to death. His body was consumed in...