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"Rosh Hashanah," painting © Gloria Abella Ballen, from The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet by Gloria Abella Ballen. www.abellaballen.com/

"Rosh Hashanah" from The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet

The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet by Gloria Abella Ballen. www.abellaballen.com/

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"We Cannot Be Defined by the Hatred of Others," Antisemitism Here and Now

By Ellen Marks April 22, 2025 It’s all of this and more: A Santa Fe student with a marker pen drawing swastikas on a young Jewish classmate. Rabbis answering the phone only to be called “genocidal baby-killer” and to hear death threats. A Jewish district attorney receiving threats credible

Yom HaShoah

Ron Duncan Hart April 22, 2025 As Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on April 23rd, it is a day to remember the unthinkable killing of 6 million Jews and other millions of Roma, communists, gay people and political dissidents by Germans crazed by Nazi supremacy ideology in

Hidden in Plain Sight, The Alhambra in Granada, Spain

Story and photographs by Lena S. Keslin April 22, 2025 There are times in our lives when an opportunity appears. We were invited to visit Spain on a Jewish Tour with Rabbi Howard Berman, a dear, lifelong friend, and some of his Boston congregation. I was excited because this trip

NMJJ sent to NYC for Lab for Journalism ~ NMJJ Awards for Religion News in Society of Professional Journalists: "Important and timely."

by Diane Joy Schmidt April 5, 2025 Celebrating our first year in publication, our voices are being heard in these difficult times and in the wider news ecosystem. In Denver Saturday night the New Mexico Jewish Journal won six awards in the highly competitive Society of Professional Journalists Top of

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"We Cannot Be Defined by the Hatred of Others," Antisemitism Here and Now

Yom HaShoah

Hidden in Plain Sight, The Alhambra in Granada, Spain

NMJJ sent to NYC for Lab for Journalism ~ NMJJ Awards for Religion News in Society of Professional Journalists: "Important and timely."