Across the Jewish world, Shavuot nights carry the warmth of open texts and strong coffee. Congregations gather after Yom Tov begins to read, debate, and dream…
In central New Mexico, the Jewish cemetery in Socorro holds a quiet record of a community that was once larger, more mobile and more connected to the region’s…
Each month on a Friday evening, a small but determined group gathers inside a converted adobe hall on the southern edge of Las Cruces. They come with wine,…
For more than four decades, Eleanor Cappon has walked the same narrow aisle of a university library, past the same shelves of bound periodicals, to reach a…
Inside an adobe house shaded by cottonwoods near the Sandia trailhead, a clarinetist sits among notebooks of handwritten Yiddish and pencil sketches of melodic…
When the United States Board on Geographic Names approved the designation of a high peak in northern New Mexico after a local Holocaust survivor, the effort…
Purim is often associated with costumes, noise, hamantaschen and the public reading of the Megillah. In northern New Mexico, those familiar traditions can open…
In Los Alamos, a Jewish couple looked beyond their own family and congregation when deciding how to turn personal resources into a lasting gift. They chose to…
In Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a group of Jewish teenagers found a meaningful way to observe Yom Kippur beyond the synagogue walls. They organised a food drive…