Tag: México
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...
Mexican Jews welcome Netanyahu — Despite backing for Trump’s wall
Mexico’s Jewish community was caught in the cross-hairs this January when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the idea of the United States building a border wall along its southern frontier. But eight months...
Mexico City mayor highlights country’s Sephardi heritage
The mayor of Mexico City praised his country’s Sephardi heritage during the opening of the global biennial Erensya summit — an initiative led by the Madrid-based Sefarad-Israel Center — on Tuesday.
“In Mexico we have...