A Rosh Hashanah greeting card exchange between Jewish seniors and Navajo elders can become much more than a seasonal correspondence. It can create a quiet…
In Taos, New Mexico, a Jewish physician saw a gap that ordinary healthcare systems were failing to close. Unhoused people could be treated in emergency…
On a small solar-powered farm in northern New Mexico, Sukkot begins with more than the building of a temporary shelter. Families arrive among orchards, raised…
A Jewish teen in Las Cruces began with a familiar school problem: comments that were dismissed as jokes, references to Nazi imagery, and classmates who did not…
When an Israeli chef brought Jerusalem-style grilling to Santa Fe, he introduced more than a new menu. He brought the smells, rhythms and hospitality of a city…
In Albuquerque, history is often encountered through place. Adobe walls, narrow streets and long-established neighbourhoods preserve stories that may never…
On a warm evening before Yom Kippur, an independent bookstore can become a temporary beit midrash: a place for study, argument, memory and moral accounting.…
In the high desert of northwestern New Mexico, where mesas flatten into the horizon and the nearest large synagogue sits hours away, a small Jewish community…
Purim has always invited a little theatricality. Costumes, laughter, playful reversals and the reading of the Megillah turn a serious communal gathering into a…
In Albuquerque, where the Sandia Mountains meet the high desert, a political scientist at the University of New Mexico has spent several years documenting a…