Did you know?
In today’s world – with so much antisemitic hatred – it’s refreshing (and somewhat surprising) to hear about a person with a strong Jewish heritage being elected as President of a country outside of Israel. But that’s what happened in Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum won national elections in early June by an overwhelming majority.
Sheinbaum previously served as the Mayor of Mexico City, and evidently did a pretty good job there.
Although she does not demonstrate an affiliation with Mexico’s Jewish community, her Jewish roots run deep. Both her maternal and paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants who settled in Mexico: one group were Ashkenazim from Lithuania, and the others were of Bulgarian Sephardi extraction.
It’s encouraging that her Jewish background barely came up during the election, despite this being a country with a huge Catholic population.
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