At Pueblo Markets in New Mexico, a Jewish silversmith’s hamsa jewelry sits within a lively display of Pueblo pottery, turquoise-set silver, woven textiles and…
High in northern New Mexico, Mora Valley lies among the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where cold nights, short summers and open skies shape the rhythm of rural…
In Roswell, New Mexico, a carefully tended shelf of young-adult books is doing work that extends beyond lending. Each title opens a route into the Holocaust: a…
At the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque, one annual tradition begins with a stockpot large enough for a crowd and a family recipe for matzah ball soup. The…
Each month in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a Jewish rabbi leads a Torah study in Spanish. The small northern town, easy to confuse with Nevada’s brighter namesake,…
Yom Kippur begins at sunset and ends after nightfall on the following day, joining a day of fasting, prayer and reflection to a communal reckoning. A Yom…
On a still morning in Madrid, New Mexico, loose wool moves across Lena Adler’s studio table in shades of cream, rust and charcoal. It began as fleece from…
The story of the mikveh built in a private home in Taos for rural Jewish families begins with a map. For observant Jews living across northern New Mexico, the…
At the edge of Silver City’s historic core stands a modest nineteenth-century synagogue, its thick adobe walls softened by age, weather and desert light. The…
At Santa Fe Community College, a Purim carnival is less about polished ceremony than the pleasure of discovering a Jewish story together. The bi-cultural twist…