~ New Mexico Jewish Journal ~ SUMMER 2024 vol. 1 no. 2. Announcing New Fiscal Sponsor; our Community Supporters; 19 new Articles - view the Table of Contents

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We are excited to announce that on June 20, 2024, the occasion of publishing our Summer issue, the New Mexico Foundation is now the Fiscal Sponsor for the New Mexico Jewish Journal! Donations of any amount are welcomed. For more information, contact Diane at editor@nmjewishjournal.com.

Donations may be made by making a check out to NM Foundation, indicating that it is for the New Mexico Jewish Journal, and mailed to:
New Mexico Jewish Journal
PO Box 1293
Corrales, NM 87048.

Our Community Supporters (advertisers) for Vo1. 1 Issue 2 are:
Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque
Congregation Albert
Shabbat With Friends
Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico
Institute for Tolerance Studies
and an announcement
Academy of Jewish Learning at Congregation B'nai Israel

If you would like to become a Community Supporter or place an announcement, please contact Diane at editor@nmjewishjournal for more information.

We have a very full issue which we hope you will return to again and again to fully explore all the articles:

1. Jews and Christian Nationalism by Ron Duncan Hart
2. Genealogy is so much more than a list of names by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
3. Board of Regents, Protesters and Jewish Students face off  by Diane Joy Schmidt
4. Summer Issue New Fiscal Sponsor, Community Supporters, TABLE OF CONTENTS
5. Culinary Time Travel: Easy, Cheesy Sambusak by Claudette Sutton
6. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People review by Rabbi Dov Gartenberg
7. Glimmers of Hope: Standing Together by Rabbi Min Kantrowitz
8. “The Power of Hebrew” Reaches England:  Santa Fe artist’s work finds a home at Cambridge University by Norma Libman
9. Basque Country - Spain Discovering a New Mexico Connection and a 500-Year-Old Agreement With the Jews by Carl Montoya
10. Exploring Jewish Rome by Neala McCarten
11. Addressing Anti-Semitism at Las Cruces City Council by Marla Cohen, Executive Director, Jewish Federation of El Paso & Las Cruces
12. Henry Nathan Jaffa, Albuquerque's first mayor honored with plaque at City Hall during Jewish Heritage Month by Diane Joy Schmidt
13. SHAVUOT The holiday, the teachings, the food!  Compiled by Diane Joy Schmidt
14. Recent bomb threats in New Mexico and Colorado with ADL statement and ADL/New Mexico report for 2023. 
15. 2024 Legacy Brunch  by Erika Rimson, Executive Director of Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico
16. A Friend of New Mexico: The Arava Institute of Israel Has Been Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Ron Duncan Hart
17. Coyote Tosses the Stars or how AI won’t have the answers we’ll need. Rockower Award for Single Commentary by Diane Joy Schmidt
18. Finding the Jewish Community in Panama: Bagels in the Boondocks by Michael Wald
19. I use Mrs. Brickner’s Recipe from the Fairmount Cookbook by Diane Joy Schmidt
20. Run for Their Lives: A Global Movement for Hostage Awareness by Lea Koshkin
21. Can Trees Treat Trauma? by Rachel Canar, Executive Director of Nature Israel
22. The Phenomenon of Jewish Success by Mort Gould
23. Don’t Bring Hate To The Protest from the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism
24. AbqJew 
25. Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque is a Community Supporter!
26. Congregation Albert is a Community Supporter
27. Shabbat with Friends is a Community Supporter!
28. Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico is a Community Supporter!
29. The Institute for Tolerance Studies is a Communty Supporter!
30. Academy of Jewish Learning at Congregation B’nai Israel

Thank you for your community support!

Diane Joy Schmidt 😸