The Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential residen...

On September 19, 2017, an earthquake had a terrible impact in Mexico City resulting in many people injured and dead, and many structures were damaged or totally destroyed. The Jewish Community Building located in the Street of Acapulco # 70 in the Condesa section of the Federal District was also da

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "artificial mountain"), is a huge complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the New World, as well as the largest pyramid known to exist in the world today. For ...

In this video we present some of the gay pride parades that have already taken place in 2023 as well as some memories of the success of Gay Pride in other years. We highlight Jerusalem, Israel;Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Wilton Manors Florida: and the flying of the Gay Flag in Kyiv before the war in 2...

May 30, 1963 marked the fifteenth birthday of my sister Nancy Gerson in Mexico City. As first generation born in Mexico my parents decided to have a quinceañera celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has pre-Columbian roots in Mexico (Aztecs) and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin A

JOIN COMMUNITY OF LIGHTS, LLC IN CELEBRATING Mexican Independence on September 16, 2014, marking the 203 years of Independence from Spain with an incredible fireworks display in your screen. QUE VIVA MEXICO! LONG LIVE MEXICO!

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse moved across North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk. We got these...

Olga Costa was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913, at the outset of World War I. Her parents, Jacobo Kostakowsky and Ana Falvisant Bovglarevokeylandel, were immigrants who had fled czarist Russia to escape persecution of the Jews. Costa and her younger sister Lya were raised in Berlin, where their fat...

On September 7, 2014 over a 1,000 people gathered in Mexico City dressed in white to chant and wish peace in the world, the majority of them are members of the Jewish community. The chant also took place in many other cities around the world including cities in Israel, the US, Costa Rica, Brazil, A...

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi