My Mexican Shivah Trailer

My Mexican Shivah is about how the death of a man results in the celebration of his life. According to Jewish belief, from the moment a Jew is born, he or she is accompanied by two angels: an angel of light and an angel of darkness. With the passing Moishe (75), his family and friends gather in Mexico City to sit shivah, the 7-day Jewish mourning ritual. The spirit angels, Aleph and Bet, divine accountants, only visible to the camera, watch over the family and calculate which angel will accompany Moishe's soul to the afterlife. The odds are against Moishe from the beginning. Family dysfunction aside, Moishe's friends are all attending for their own motives. And to make matters worse, while performing his duties, a Chevreman, who is a member of the Sacred Funeral Society, is milking the family for all they're worth: charging for kosher food, slippers and various other shivah goods. Emotionally unstable and obsessed with staying young, Moishe's daughter Esther, falls apart; crying over a lost tooth and announcing that she is going to have plastic surgery to fix her entire body immediately after the shivah. Meanwhile, Moishe's son, Ricardo, is attempting to convince a doctor attending the shivah to give his girlfriend an abortion, while his wandering eye leads him to his dead father's lover, Julia Palafox, the notorious mistress for whom Moishe left his family many years earlier. Which angel will win the battle for Moishe's soul? If the shivah reveals anything, it's that Moishe's family and friends loved him with all his flaws and mystery- and most of all his spirit.

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[SuperHorusra]

This year is very speical , it's encoded in the pyramid ! 481 the height of the pyramid times 12 of the zodiac = the jewish new year 5772, 29th of September 2011 . Spread the good news !

[landovida]

@centerrightpunk Interesting, I'm from Leon, gto. :)

[MrFcasasa]

You´re right my city was founded by Jewish guys and at the end of XVI century more than 25 % citizens in that city were Jewish, in facts is known that many guys of that city have Jewish roots and they don´t know it. My city is one of the most important Mexican cities by size and economy is Monterrey. There is a youtube video from History channel that tell what I wrote here (Mexico, los descendientes judios ( ) de Monterrey)

[VioletaG1979]

That's right, just look at the "Tomatodo": it's a dreidel! And the chocolate coins of holidays are the same ones in Hannukah. Latkes are "tortitas de papa"... the list can go on! :)

[Atitoinnyc]

mexicans have jewish blood and customs all the way from the inquisition. THey fled spain and went to mexico

[centerrightpunk]

there were alot of jews that immigrated to latin america, mostly in the 20th century. for the most part, south america. how many of those today in mexico are practicing judaism, i don't know. so perhaps in that sense, their not "jewish". but i can tell you, from personal experience, there are alot. there's other minorities, too. la chinesca, has a small chinese community. chipilo has a small italian community, where they even speak a dialect of italian. also afro-mexicans in costa chica.

[elnegro5695]

well it depends on what you really mean by jews, there was a lot of jews persecuted during colony times that became catholics to avoid persecution, & some others do the same during franco time when they came as refugees to mexico, but they dont count as jews (for us) we only see somebody as a jew if he really practices judaism the rest dont, u can google it the total (note mexican census do not take in acount race or religion) number the jews are from 40 to 50 thousands i think mostly sephardits

[centerrightpunk]

no, i'd definitely say millions. no more then 2 or 3, but still. alot of them have blended with the rest of mexican society. though, generally the upper class.

[elnegro5695]

not millions dude there are actually about 50 to 100 thousand jews, getting this kind of demographic data in mexico its kinda hard cause the goverment dosent take neither religious or racial statiitics in the census, theres all kind off groups here but they all assimilate to mexican culture preetty easily you can see it in this movie they are all 100% mexican using mexican words like (cabron & chinga tu madre) they are just jewish aswell

[ecmedinita]

amazing! gracias moises por enviarme!