In Taos, the landscape is impossible to ignore. Broad skies, high desert light, piñon and sage, mountain weather, and the visible traces of many cultures shape…
New Mexico’s cultural life has long been shaped by encounters among communities with deep histories, strong family networks, and distinctive traditions. Jewish…
The New Mexico Jewish Genealogy Society’s latest workshop offered a practical reminder that family history is built from fragments. A name in a census, a…
On April 11, 1945, soldiers of the U.S. Third Army reached Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camps. The liberation revealed a place…
On a winter afternoon in Albuquerque, the Nissim family kitchen fills with the scent of olive oil, garlic, cinnamon, and warm pastry. A tray of borekas cools…
A Jewish film festival can seem, at first glance, like a series of screenings arranged around a shared theme. The experience in Santa Fe revealed something…
On a recent evening in Albuquerque, a small gathering settled into the attentive quiet that poetry requires. Pages rustled, tea was poured, and familiar words…
As the sun sets over Santa Fe during Ramadan, a meal can become much more than a meal. Dates, water, soup, bread, and shared conversation create a setting…
The history of Jewish cattle ranchers in eastern New Mexico is woven through the larger story of the state’s High Plains communities. It includes people who…
Las Cruces’s first Jewish cemetery grew from a small but determined community in the southern New Mexico borderlands. During the late nineteenth century,…