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
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By Diane Joy Schmidt 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 night I dreamed
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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
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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
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Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Gallup Independent as their leading OpEd the weekend of November 16th, following the election: by Diane Joy Schmidt What resonates across the United States of America and Europe now, bringing a rightward swing and authoritarian governments to the ascendancy, is immigration.
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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
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\by Diane Joy Schmidt photos by NM Jewish Journal staff Following the attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel on October 7th, week after week protests have grown across college campuses against Israel's response. Protesters' activities escalated nationally and at both the University of New Mexico and at