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Art Did Mexican Artists Produce the First Images of the Holocaust?
Velvet-black smoke pours out of a locomotive looming on the horizon, accentuating the train’s length. It ascends heavenward, but the smoke is no Exodus pillar of cloud guiding the Israelites. This ominous billowing form signals the train’s imminent departure, as armed Nazis herd people aboard. In the foreground, a burly soldier shines a lantern into…
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News Mexico’s Jewish Envoy Slammed by All Sides After UNESCO Vote Drama
October was a tough month for Andres Roemer — Mexico’s now former ambassador to UNESCO and a highly public, if controversial, member of Mexico’s Jewish community. Suddenly, last month, a rapid and complicated tangle of Middle East-related developments conspired to recast the 53-year-old star diplomat as a piñata, subject to severe whackings by both his…
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Opinion Donald Trump’s Plan for Immigrants Should Scare The Hell Out of Jews
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump opened his presidential campaign by calling the United States “a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” He famously proclaimed that Mexico is not sending “their best” across the border, that Mexican immigrants are drug dealers, criminals and rapists….
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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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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