Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has been famously quiet about her Jewish ancestry. Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found refuge here.

Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's first woman president yesterday, taking the oath of office as legislators chanted "Presidenta! Presidenta!" The 62-year-old scientist-turned-politician receives a country with a number of immediate problems,

Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, May 29, 2024. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, will be sworn in as Mexico’s first woman president on Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)