Insights

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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…
A Ranch Camp Near Cimarron Gives At-Risk Youth Room to GrowA summer camp on a working ranch near Cimarron offers a distinctive setting for young people who need steadiness, encouragement and a safe distance from the…
Eight Nights of Light on the High Desert: A Taos Family's HanukkahOn a December evening in Taos, New Mexico, the temperature drops below freezing and the sky turns the deep indigo that only high altitude can produce. Inside a…
Designing Sacred Space: An Architect's Green Synagogue in New MexicoAround the high desert plateaus of central New Mexico, where sagebrush gives way to adobe walls and crisp blue skies stretch above the Sandia Mountains, a…
How Albuquerque readers are reviving Yiddish through book clubsIn a sun-faded meeting room near the University of New Mexico, a dozen readers gather around a folding table and pass photocopied pages from a Yiddish story…
Yom HaShoah in Albuquerque: Reading names across the PacificIn the high desert of Albuquerque, a small museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance hosts one of the most intimate commemorations on the American calendar.…
A Las Cruces Rabbi Spins Weekly Lessons from Torah and ChilesIn the high desert of southern New Mexico, where the Organ Mountains turn copper at sunset and the smell of roasting green chile drifts from backyard kitchens,…
How a Jewish Journalist Became the Lone Witness at TrinityWilliam Laurence arrived in the United States from Lithuania in 1905, a teenage immigrant who could not yet read English. Within three decades he had become…
Sukkot under the stars at a Jewish ranch in the Estancia ValleyUnder the wide skies of central New Mexico, a small ranch in the Estancia Valley has opened its gates to a Sukkot overnight campout that blends agricultural…
A Santa Fe Toy Library Built Around BelongingIn Santa Fe, one Jewish mother saw a familiar problem in an unfamiliar form. Families raising children with autism, developmental delays, sensory differences,…