Insights

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Sephardic and New Mexican Folk Music Meet for a Hanukkah ConcertA unique Hanukkah concert is set to bring together two rich folk traditions at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The performance…
Why a Los Alamos Scientist Studies Torah by Lunar TimeBefore dawn in Los Alamos, when the high-desert air is cold and the Jemez Mountains sit dark against the sky, a Jewish scientist opens a laptop for Torah…
Española's community garden and the Jewish hands that tend itIn the northern stretches of New Mexico, where the Rio Grande cuts through basalt canyons and acequias still carry snowmelt to family plots, a small but…
Children Carry Torah Scrolls Through a Public Park on Simchat TorahIn a sun-drenched park, music drifts across the grass as children in white shirts lift small, hand-rolled Torah scrolls above their heads and begin to dance.…
A New Mexico family's 90-mile mission to save a TorahWhen B'nai Israel in west El Paso announced it would lock its doors for the final time late last year, the building's most precious resident was not the modest…
Clay, Memory and Meaning at the Seder TableIn the high desert of New Mexico, a Jewish potter has found a meaningful conversation between two ancient traditions: the ritual storytelling of Passover and…
How a Las Cruces Entrepreneur Put New Mexico's Chiles on a Kosher ShelfIn the high desert of southern New Mexico, where the smell of roasting Hatch green chiles drifts across the Rio Grande valley every autumn, a small business is…
A Tu Bishvat Haggadah Inspired by Pueblo Corn, Beans, and SquashTu Bishvat arrives in the middle of the Australian winter, when the eucalyptus forests of the Dandenong Ranges glisten with morning fog and Sydney's coastal…
When a violin carries Kol Nidre across the SouthwestOn a desert evening in Albuquerque, beneath the wide skies of New Mexico, a violinist is preparing to take the stage for a piece that rarely leaves the…
How the Jewish Women's League founded the Santa Fe Animal ShelterThe story begins in 1945, when a small group of women in Santa Fe, many of them connected through the local synagogue and Jewish women's organisations, noticed…