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By Ellen Marks It must have seemed like she was everywhere. Elisa Simon was a dynamo who touched nearly every major Jewish organization in Albuquerque, helping to start some of them and lending inexhaustible support to others. “She helped make the Jewish community what it was,” says Harold Albert, longtime
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By Jennifer Levin Some of the first Jews in what is now the United States called Santa Fe home. Crypto-Jews were a subset of Sephardic Conversos, forced to convert to Catholicism during the century preceding the Edict of Expulsion. The Spanish Inquisition, established in 1478, had already been persecuting
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By Min Kantrowitz The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir (SUNY Press) is an intimate family memoir of a lost world. Spanning the years 1923 to the early 1990s, Joel Dinerstein’s recollections of his family as they transitioned from the shtetl through adjusting to life as
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By Austin Curtis For Diana Paul, the Congregation Albert Sisterhood Judaica shop has always been about more than the menorahs, candles, and toys sitting on its shelves. It's about giving families a place to find the items that help keep Jewish traditions alive. Paul has volunteered with Congregation
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Want to know what you’re voting for? Read What’s on Your Ballot? The League of Women Voters Guide Is Here, a plain-language guide to the amendments and bond questions on the ballot for Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. Find your polling place and hours at NMVote.org.
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Freedom is on the ballot. Vote by Nov. 3. New stories and community events: The ADL in New Mexico: Valued Locally, Debated Nationally; How to "Interrupt" Antisemitism: ADL Parent Training Comes to New Mexico (Albuquerque parents, register by Oct. 28); What’s on Your Ballot? The League of
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ADL continues to work at maintaining close ties to New Mexico. Nationwide, ADL has come under fire during the past few years — caught in a broader struggle over defining when anti-Israel views bleed into antisemitism.
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The Anti-Defamation League developed its new parent advocacy training program last year and is bringing it to New Mexico in early November.
Challengers to a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case, after a bitterly divided federal appeals court upheld the law 9-8. Martin Finston explains what’s at stake.
AWARD WINNING STORYTELLER & AUTHOR MARK BINDER is coming to Albuquerque with his show, “You Can’t Sing” he said…and I believed him! Storytellers of New Mexico and The NM Jewish Storytelling Festival are bringing Mark Binder to FUSION’s Cell Theater for his lying, storytelling, and books tour.
For 70 years, the League of Women Voters has had the reputation of being older women in tennis shoes. They wear it proudly and yes, they are almost always in tennis shoes.
By Sherry Robinson | All She Wrote Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, recently told the State Investment Council that he was strongly opposed to investing New Mexico public funds in “entities associated with Russia and companies controlled by Elon Musk” because of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and
In NM Jewish Journal’s first year in the New Mexico Press Association contest, we won two awards: Judith Fein’s column and arts review each placed second in Division 1, behind only the Santa Fe New Mexican.
By Merilee Dannemann Four years ago, county commissioners in Otero County caused a minor national embarrassment for New Mexico by refusing to certify the primary election. One commissioner claimed he had proof. With no reason given, he didn’t trust the voting machines. Eventually, threatened with legal action including possible
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By Fred Nathan A 2025 poll found that only 19% of New Mexico residents trust state government officials. The good news is that there are commonsense ethics reforms that can help restore New Mexicans’ trust in their government.
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New stories and Community Event flyers, including Oct. 4 Simchat Torah celebrations this morning. Three years ago, the attack of October 7 fell on Simchat Torah. This year we celebrate the holiday with both bitter and sweet, dancing with the Torah on Sunday and gathering in remembrance on Wednesday, Oct.
Story and Photos by Paul Ross One of THE big questions — right up there after “What is the Meaning of Life?”— is “Is There Life After Death?” Most religions have answers but seances try to put you in touch with the only ones who really know: the dead. And now