Traveling while Jewish
By Jackie Wald We are all part of the worldwide Diaspora. Some places have little pockets of Jews, others large concentrations—think New York, Los Angeles, London… If you’re like me, it feels as though we are always looking at those around us, thinking hmmm, I wonder if s/
Book Review
By Dianne R. Layden, PhD Janet Bond Brill spent 37 years with her mother-in-law Edna before losing her — and she refused to let Edna’s story disappear with her. The result is Little Edna’s War, a Warsaw Ghetto memoir written in Edna’s own voice as a
League of Women Voters
\by Karen Wentworth When I worked as a journalist many years ago for KOAT I covered the activities of many non-profit organizations. One of the most boring was the League of Women Voters. Year after year, they did the same things – put out Voter Guides with candidate questions and
Awards
New Mexico Jewish Journal, in its second year, just took home 9 awards by 8 contributors – including 4 first-place wins – from the regional Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies contest. Among 2,000 entries from 100 newsrooms across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, NMJJ competed in
Awards
NM Jewish Journal Sweeps 2026 77th Annual NM Press Women Communications Contest. Wins FIRST PRIZE Publication with Ten First Place Awards and Forty Awards Total
Newsletter
OUR CURRENT ISSUE War: A Mirror to Ourselves · New Awards · To Be a Jew Is a Verb: A Las Cruces Family’s Century of Showing Up. · Concert: Joni and Leonard at the KiMo · Yom HaShoah at the Roundhouse with the Mayor of Santa Fe and both Majority and Minority Democratic
By Ron Duncan Hart In 1901, shortly before becoming the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, famously said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far.” He went on to say, “If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick
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By the New Mexico Jewish Journal Debra Wechter Friedman grew up watching her parents build a synagogue from scratch in southern New Mexico. Now she’s asking what the next generation of Jewish giving looks like in a state that rarely makes the philanthropic map. Debra Wechter Friedman remembers exactly
By Ellen Futterman Editor-in-Chief of the St. Louis Jewish Light where this story first appeared. For Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer, the paths that led them to each other—and to their intimate cabaret show, “Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen”
Photos by Ron Duncan Hart As has been the custom for many years, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was commemorated at the state capital in Santa Fe this year. The event was attended by Santa Fe Mayor Michael Garcia and by Democratic and Republican representatives: Majority Floor Leader Rep. Reena
By Merilee Dannemann If New Mexico legislators were paid a salary, what would you expect them to do that they have not been doing up till now? New Mexico is the only state legislature where legislators are not paid something like a salary, though they do receive per diem and
April 1 2026 Newsletter
Happy Passover and Chag Sameach! Seven new stories! Our new series, New Mexico Jewish voices across the Spectrum, is introduced with three articles. The first Spectrum profile, by Ron Duncan Hart, highlights the work of Mikey Weinstein, Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder, whose battle against religious coercion in the U.