Tag: México
Sephardic Jews to convene at global summit in Mexico
Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City.
Coordinated by the Latin American Sephardic Federation, the Cumbre Erensya summit will bring together delegates from the Americas, Europe...
Swimming For A Cause: From The Dead Sea To The Pacific Ocean
Less than six months after completing a seven-hour, salt-drenched swim across a dwindling Dead Sea, Israeli activist athlete Oded Rahav is ready to take on the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
Along with 11 other...
Mexican MasterChef Contestant Refuses to Eat Her Unkosher Concoctions, For Now
A Jewish contestant on the Mexican version of MasterChef Junior didn’t push her faith to the back burner, even when it meant cooking with a treyf ingredient.
Batia Bresca, a 13-year-old from Mexico City, recently made the...
Preserving Order Amid Change in NAFTA
It took more than a decade and three presidencies, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, to conceive and craft the North American Free Trade Agreement. Will a single presidency manage to undo the process...
Will the U.S. and Canada leave Mexico behind?
America and Canada dropped their first hints that they could strike a new trade deal without Mexico. And Mexico suggested that it's not interested in any deal that puts it at a disadvantage.
President Trump's...
Mexico stood up to Reagan. It can stand up to Trump, too
A great debate is underway in foreign ministries, intelligence agencies and trade associations with regard to President-elect Donald Trump’s true intentions. The ongoing guessing game in many of the world’s larger capitals involves a...
Mexico doesn’t have to appease Trump. It can fight back.
This year, for the first time since Ronald Reagan assailed the Soviet Union in 1980, an American presidential candidate actively campaigned against another country’s national interests. By threatening to deport all undocumented immigrants, about...
Hafrashat Jala
Next week’s Shabbat is a very special one for Jews everywhere. It is a time when every Jewish congregation around the world will be together, not physically but spiritually.
This year, the Kehila Ashkenazi granted...
Hero: Mexico’s UNESCO envoy walked out to protest Islamist resolution on Jerusalem, now may...
Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays.
He is also a hero.
When...
Israel suspending ties with UNESCO following vote that denies Jewish connection to Jerusalem
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel would suspend its cooperation with UNESCO because of the U.N. agency’s decision to ignore Jewish ties to holy sites in Jerusalem.
Bennett’s statement on Friday followed passionate condemnations...