Each year, Albuquerque’s Pride Parade offers a public meeting place for LGBTQ+ people, families, allies, community organisations and faith groups. The…
In Las Cruces, New Mexico, a Jewish woman founded a support group for interfaith couples after seeing how often love, family loyalty and religious identity…
At a small Albuquerque venue, Maya Rosen begins with a fiddle line that sounds as though it has travelled a long way. The melody bends like a Jewish wedding…
For teenagers, Holocaust education is more than a sequence of dates, names and wartime events. It is an encounter with individual lives, difficult choices and…
In a remote village in northern New Mexico, a family story survived in fragments. An elderly woman remembered that her grandmother lit candles on Friday…
A Shabbat service shaped by Pueblo drumming and chants can create a powerful meeting place between Jewish ritual and the living cultures of New Mexico. The…
Each year, the Jewish community’s food drive for the Navajoland Food Bank turns a simple act of giving into a relationship built on care. Congregations,…
In Corrales, New Mexico, a Jewish family has turned a small citrus tree into a yearly act of faith, patience, and family memory. Their etrog, or citron, is…
At lunchtime in Albuquerque, the smell of cumin, roasted garlic and warm pita can draw a small crowd before the first order is called. Behind that queue is…
The 2018 earthquakes in northern New Mexico were felt within a community accustomed to distance, limited services and close personal networks. The shaking did…