About New Mexico Jewish Journal
The New Mexico Jewish Journal: keeping us connected with news, arts, culture and spirituality is an independent online publication launched in 2024. Our mission is to connect, inform, enrich and celebrate the vibrant and diverse Jewish communities of New Mexico and the region. We follow the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, with a commitment to maintaining journalistic independence and the highest standards of accuracy and fairness. You may write to us at editor@nmjewishjournal.com.
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NEWS about New Mexico Jewish Journal updated 10/2026:
In two years we've won a total of 72 awards, with 22 First Place, in international, national, regional and state journalism competitions, both secular and Jewish:
2026 News: We are recipients of a generous grant from the Jewish Community Housing Corporation, making it possible to expand our community coverage. We were selected for the national Blue Engine Collab/NM Local News Fund/NM Press Forward Accelerator Training Grant with nine other New Mexico newsrooms for 2026. We won 2 New Mexico Press Association Awards our first year entering, where NMJJ competed in the Daily Class I division alongside the state's largest daily newspapers. We won 2 more Rockowers from the American Jewish Press Association, again in august company, with .5% of the revenue of the publications we won alongside of (The Forward, Hartman Foundation, JTA).We won nine Society of Professional Journalism awards in the 4-state regional competition, including four first place, and 40 NM Press Women state awards with 10 first place.
2025 News: We completed a Local Media Association /Google News Initiative/NM Local News Fund Accelerator Grant with 14 NM newspapers and a trip to NYC. We fulfilled a Match Campaign with a triple match made possible by our Match Mensches. We won a total of 35 awards for our first 9 months of articles, including 2 American Jewish Press Awards (the "Jewish Pulitzers") 6 Society Professional Journalists (SPJ), 25 New Mexico Press Women and 2 National Federation Press Women.
2024 NEWS: We have been awarded an Accelerator Grant by the New Mexico Local News Fund Program, began their 6-month training program April 1st, and participated in their year-end Match campaign which tripled contributions in December. As of July 1st our new Fiscal Sponsor is the New Mexico Foundation. On July 26th, we became a member of LION Publishers, Local Independent Online News, the national organization of online news publishers. On July 3oth, we signed a letter of agreement with the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Lawyers for Reporters, who are now our pro bono counsel. In December 2024 we acquired Media Liability insurance which covers our freelance writers. The New Mexico Jewish Journal, founded in 2024, is a member of LION Publishers, the American Jewish Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and New Mexico Press Women/National Federation of Press Women. And, in September, 2026, we joined the New Mexico Press Association.
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Editor’s Note
Since 2026, the New Mexico Jewish Journal occasionally usea the Claude AI assistant as a tool in its editorial process for tasks such as copyediting, fact-checking support, and structural feedback on drafts. All reporting, interviews, fact verification, and final editorial decisions are made by and remain the responsibility of our human writers and editors. — DJS.
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
Congregation B'nai Israel
Shabbat with Friends: Recapturing Together the Joy of Shabbat
New Mexico Jewish Historical Society
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