In the high desert outside Albuquerque, a Jewish pottery studio in Jemez Springs creates custom Sabbath candlesticks by combining hand-shaped clay, carefully…
Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset and asks a household to welcome the Jewish New Year with food that feels familiar, festive and hopeful. Apples, honey and round…
In Albuquerque, a dispute between a Jewish institution and a Palestinian group can carry histories far larger than the meeting room. It may concern a campus…
At the New Mexico School for the Deaf, a Yom HaShoah candle-lighting ceremony brought remembrance into a place where learning is communicated through sound,…
In Edgewood, on the eastern side of Albuquerque, the approach of Sukkot is marked by the scent of cut juniper. Families arrive carrying branches, lengths of…
Las Cruces sits in New Mexico’s Mesilla Valley, where cotton fields run towards the Organ Mountains and the afternoon sun can bleach a road shoulder white. For…
Why would a Jewish rabbi in Santa Fe teach Talmud through the lens of contemporary poetry? The pairing can sound clever, but it addresses a serious problem:…
Before sunrise, a woman could leave a settlement in northern New Mexico with a bag of linen, instruments and medicines, knowing that the first delivery of the…
A Purim costume parade at the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo for families turns a familiar holiday story into an afternoon among animal habitats, native plants and…
A small, Jewish-owned press in Santa Fe is turning family papers, photographs and remembered customs into children’s books on Jewish New Mexican history. Its…