Congregation B'nai Israel
by Martin Finston “Join or Die” Shabbat Sparks Program at Cong. B’nai Israel Saturday, November 16, 2024: Lite Bites, 5 p.m. Havdalah Service, 5:40 p.m. Screening, 6 p.m. Dessert and Discussion, 7:45 p.m. Tickets: First adult, $21; each additional adult on same purchase
Israel
By Ben Bleiman I first visited Israel in 2022 as the world crawled out of another long pandemic winter. I’d registered for a Taglit trip twice in the previous 15 months only for them each to be cancelled just days before I was scheduled to leave, and I wondered
Op-ed
By Diane Joy Schmidt September 14, 2024 I had a series of dreams. One night I dreamt that a bull calf came to the east door, and I brought him inside because he was lost. I kept him in my bedroom until his owners came along for him. The next
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Issue 1
Over a year ago New Mexico’s Jewish community lost its sole statewide Jewish paper, the New Mexico Jewish Link. In our rural state, which now has an estimated 24,000 Jewish people, the loss of the paper was keenly felt, especially during these fraught times when we need connection
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Senator Chuck Shumer (D-NY) pointed to the blue square button on his lapel as he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. Stand Up To Jewish Hate is a campaign to make the blue square a recognizable symbol against antisemitism and all hate. It
issue 4
Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum has written a book of major importance for contemporary Jews who are critical thinkers. Those who have read Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, or any of the myriad Jewish philosophers since the Enlightenment may be left questioning the biblical narratives in Genesis and Exodus and some of
Op-ed
by Diane Joy Schmidt November 13, 2024 What resonates across the United States of America and Europe now, bringing a rightward swing and authoritarian governments to the ascendancy, is immigration. As used against the Other, a technique Jews are unfortunately very familiar with, the issue of immigration was employed very
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NEW MEXICO JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Return to HOME or Table of Contents Community Supporters of the NM Jewish Journal include: Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico Congregation Albert Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque The Institute for Tolerance Studies Jewish Federation of El Paso and Las Cruces Temple Beth Shalom
News Analysis
by Ron Duncan Hart I first encountered Christian nationalism two generations ago in research I was doing in Cabbagetown, a White working-class neighborhood of Atlanta. It was at the end of the Jim Crow era in Southern politics, and people were protesting the outlawing of segregation and Bible reading and
Genetics
by Schelly Talalay Dardashti In 2000, the advent of consumer DNA testing forever changed the Jewish genealogy world, when FamilyTreeDNA.com (FTDNA) was created. To be sure, two earlier events contributed in a major way. Following the 1978 “Roots” television series, Jewish genealogists realized they could also find family and