Insights

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Sukkot Among Horses, Goats, And New Mexico’s CottonwoodsIn Corrales, where the Rio Grande bosque meets old farm roads and wide New Mexico skies, Sukkot can take on a particularly earthy character. A Jewish-owned…
A Survivor’s Story Finds A New Audience In AlbuquerqueIn a quiet Albuquerque recording room, a Jewish Holocaust survivor is speaking to people who were born more than seven decades after the liberation of…
Returning to the River at Rosh HashanahOn the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish gathering beside the Rio Grande can feel both ordinary and profound. Families arrive with water bottles, prayer…
Why a Rio Rancho Parent Built a Shabbat Potluck CircleBy late Friday afternoon in Rio Rancho, the usual family timetable can feel compressed into a single breath. School pick-ups, work messages, homework, sports…
Dancing Into Yom HaAtzmaut at the Santa Fe PlazaAs the evening light settles over Santa Fe, the Plaza becomes a natural meeting place for music, memory, and movement. For Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence…
How a Las Vegas NM Jewish Garden Brings Fresh Food to Local PantriesHigh in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a small congregation has turned a patch of earth into a working model of Jewish communal care. B'nai…
A Jewish weaver's tallitot woven from Navajo-Churro woolIn the high desert of northern New Mexico, where juniper and sagebrush frame adobe homes, a small workshop hums with the rhythm of a wooden loom. Here, a…
Why a New Mexico Tech Professor Reads Science Through the TalmudAt New Mexico Tech, a Jewish professor can look at the Talmud and see more than a record of religious law. The ancient collection of rabbinic debate also…
Jewish Soldiers And The New Mexico Guard In World War IIThe history of Jewish service in the New Mexico National Guard belongs to two stories at once. It is part of the state’s military record, shaped by desert…
Jewish teens take aim at a Lag B'Omer camp near Angel FireLag B'Omer arrives each year on the thirty-third day of the Omer counting, bringing with it bonfires, bows, and a noticeable lift in spirits among Jewish…