In New Mexico, Jewish life is often separated by long highways, mountain passes, desert stretches, and small towns where a synagogue may be many miles away.…
In Taos, Jewish identity is finding expressive form in studios where earth, pigment, light, and memory meet. Artists are drawing on family histories, ritual…
On a quiet morning in Albuquerque, the first deliveries arrive before the pantry doors open. Volunteers carry boxes of beans, rice, canned tomatoes, fresh…
In Las Cruces, a holiday dinner is creating space for neighbors to meet across religious, cultural, and political differences. The gathering brings Muslims and…
When silver transformed Silver City from a frontier settlement into a regional center in the 1870s, it drew prospectors, engineers, merchants, laborers,…
On July 18, 1994, a bomb destroyed the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, known as AMIA, in Buenos Aires. The attack killed 85 people and injured hundreds…
On a weeknight in Albuquerque, a familiar room takes on a different rhythm. Chairs move aside, voices gather around old melodies, and a language shaped by…
Santa Fe’s new eruv is giving local Jewish families another way to experience Shabbat within the rhythm of everyday life. By marking a defined area around…
New Mexico can seem, at first glance, like a place defined by distance: broad mesas, high desert plains, mountain ranges, and roads that run for miles beneath…
By the time my session at Camp I had finished, the experience felt much larger than a few weeks away from home. Camp had become a place where Jewish life was…