Mexican Jews

Why on earth do you ask OP?

Yes, we exist

Sephardim, baby

Mexico has between 68,00 and 40,000 Jews which is 0.25% of the total population of Mexico.

Any other research you want me to do for you OP?

A recent study showed that nearly a quarter latin Americans may be descended from Jews who converted to Christianity.

Keep those Mexican penises intact.

Jews are everywhere. China and India have old Jewish communities

I don’t know about Mexican Jews, but Native American Jews are known as Schmohawks.

Here’s one

This is eye opening. Who knew there were Jews in Mexican countries? I wish there was some way to tell who's a Jew and not a Jew... like a name tag or badge or something.

I live in Dallas, I have seen Mexican Jews in the Latin grocery stores.

Don't know. And don't give a shit.

Lots in Mexico City, feels like more than 60,000 for the whole country, but I only know people who live in Mexico City.

Frida Kahlo was Jewish, if that helps.

There's way more Jews in Argentina.

[quote]Who knew there were Jews in Mexican countries?

Oh, Dear! Idiot spill on Aisle R10.

[quote] This is eye opening. Who knew there were Jews in Mexican countries? I wish there was some way to tell who's a Jew and not a Jew... like a name tag or badge or something.

How about an armband or a yellow star sewn to their clothing?

Die in a grease fire, sooner rather than later, dear. We all hate you.

Pre-Castro, there were lots of Jews in Cuba.

[quote] "... in Mexican countries .. "

Just how many "Mexican countries" do you think there are?

Kyle Richard's husband, Mauricio Umanksy is a mexican jew.

[quote] Oh, Dear! Idiot spill on Aisle [R10].

[quote]Just how many "Mexican countries" do you think there are?

Who knew we had so many autists who can't recognize trolling when they see it.

I always heard that many of the families that settled San Antonio, especially the ones from the Canary Islands, were conversos. I don't know if it's true or not.

They are called Jewlepenos

Some idiots think anyone who is a native spanish speaker is "Mexican" and that all the countries are the same or just part of Mexico.

You can also call them jewchachos.

The mayor of CDMX (Mexico City), Claudia Sheinbaum is Jewish.

There is a sizable and affluent Jewish community in Mexico City.

They are mostly Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who emigrated there at the turn of last century or in the 1930s as they were fleeing the Nazis.

The wealthy Polanco district has a sizable Jewish community as do some of the western suburbs. There's a great restaurant in Polanco called Kleins where you can get kosher salami tacos.

Jews, funny enough, are considered white in Mexico and often stereotyped as being lighter skinned than pure Spanish Mexicans.

Klein's salami tacos

Klein's salami tacos

Sorry for double post. Site is acting up again for me.

R13, Kahlo isn't Jewish.

Pati Jinich is a Jewish Mexican academic who “wanted to help with ideas” and later became a chef, but what she didn’t expect was that her recipes would be taking Mexican food to family tables around the world.

Yes, many Spanish Jews headed to Mexico in 1492, to avoid execution/forced conversion in Spain. Mexico began accepting Jewish refugees in the early 1900s.

There is a large Jewish community in Mexico City. My sister married a Mexican Jew. My brother in law's grandfather spoke Ladino, the Spanish that was spoken in medieval Spain.

Diego Rivera is Jewish as his mother was a Mexican.

[quote] My brother in law's grandfather spoke Ladino, the Spanish that was spoken in medieval Spain.

But that's likely because his grandparents emigrated to Mexico from Turkey where there was a large Ladino speaking community. Ladino is actually a mixture of Hebrew and Spanish in the way that Yiddish is a mixture of German and Hebrew.

Ladino was spoken by the Jews who fled Spain after the expulsion in 1492

The Jews who wound up in Mexico R30 could not live openly as Jews because of the Inquisition which followed them to Mexico.

That is why recently, anthropologists have found small towns in rural Mexico where the people, who are Catholic, practice Jewish customs, like lighting candles on Friday night, that have been passed down from generations--the assumption is they were crypto-Jews or Marranos.

^^Or Greece or somewhere else in that region where many Sephardic Jews settled.

Arab or Mizrachi Jews are different than Sephardim. They follow the same rituals but have no Spanish heritage.

"his mother was a Mexican Jew"

This thread, which was an obvious troll post, has become surprisingly interesting and educational.

Interesting article about the Centro Deportivo Israelita, it's version of the JCC.

Google Crypto Jews.

[quote] Kyle Richard's husband, Mauricio Umanksy is a mexican jew.

At R9, a pic of Mauricio was linked.

[quote] Diego Rivera is Jewish

Not anymore.

Yes, was. my edible was kicking in.

There is a sign significant population in Mexico City in Polanco, a affluent neighborhood. I used to see them walking to the synagogue on the Sabbath.

Fun Fact: Ham and other pork products plays a big role in Spanish cuisine because it was a way for people to prove they were not Crypto Jews and/or to root them out.

[quote] my edible was kicking in.

As was mine. (Slurp). He stopped screaming.

R40, are you also r24?

Plenty of kosher restaurants...

I knew a Jewish guy in the Village in the '70s. I later found out he was from Mexico. He spoke perfect English, with something of a gay accent.

I shared an apartment with a Mexican Jewish guy when I was in college. His parents were Greek holocaust survivors. He could speak Spanish, English and Yiddish.

He was hairy as hell. His bush was like a large scouring pad. Is that typical for Sephardic Jews?

No R46. Some are, some aren't.

I had a Sephardic friend in college who had about three hairs on his chest.

DL fave Eydie Gorme, born Gormezano; was a Sephardic Jew, her parents were Turkish, and because she spoke Ladino growing up in the Bronx, she recorded many songs in Spanish.

Oprah’s very own Nate Berkus dated a Mexican Jew before he took up with the Argentine. There have been lots of good docs about Mexican Jews; check out the Jewish Film festivals. One of Almodovar’s main players is an Argentine Jew. So many Latin Jews were being sent to attend college in Israel at one point that it used to have its website in Hebrew, English and Spanish.

Louie C.K.'s dad

Another thread full of Jew-obsessed psychos. Where are the Mexican Muslims or Muslim and Irish threads?

Would it kill you to call your mother on this Día de Muertos? Oy. ¡Arriba!

Yes lots with typical Hebrew names. All my Mexican friends happen to be Jewish. Most are very Nationalistic and appreciate the great wealth and opportunity they were given in Mexico. They are the caraziest partiers I have met worldwide. Most have homes in NY, Beverly Hills, Madrid, Tel Aviv and London.

The Jewbans of Coral Gables and Doral own most of Miami. I imagine the Jewlangos are similarly successful.

Livingston, and West Orange NJ have a population of them. As does Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston

R52 — All the ones I know are also very nationalistic as well. They have a great appreciation for being taken in, and the opportunities. R50 — There are many Mexican Muslims. Many South American countries have elected Muslims as president, though most had to convert to Catholicism to run. Mexico had a diverse population. It’s not all indigenous people. Google the society pages, and see the names and faces of those shown.

Oh papi jewlo!

Salma Hayek is Lebanese-Mexican. I have extended family members who are Persian-Mexican. Mexico is a diverse country like the US

[quote] Arab or Mizrachi Jews are different than Sephardim. They follow the same rituals but have no Spanish heritage.

Spanish people have Arab heritage.

[quote] Google the society pages, and see the names and faces of those shown.

Or watch "Roma" or even "Y Tu Mama, Tambien"

Pati Jinich who writes great Mexican cookbooks and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills husband Mauricio are both Mexican Jews

There are also Gay Mexican Jews in existence, OP.

(Video is in Spanish, but they basically talk about how their group GUIMEL offers a safe space for gay Jewish Mexicans, along with help to aid them in dealing with the challenges of being gay as both a Jew and a Mexican.)

That would be pronounced "Gimmel" at R61, which is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has the same sound as the hard G in English.

When will I see Jews again?

When will we share Hebrew moments?

Will I have to plant trees?

Will I have to steal land?

From a Pal-es-tin-e-an?

When will I see Jews again?

When will our nukes be acknowledge?

Are we at peace or not friends?

Is this my beginning or is this the end? (is this the end?)

When will I see Jews again?

When will I see Jews again?

This show on Bravo is actually all about Mexican Jews.

It's called "Mexican Dynasties," and it follows around three or four prominent Mexican Jewish families.

Incidentally, one of them is related to the aforementioned Mauricio Umansky (Kyle Richards' husband of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills).

They all seem to be wealthy.