by Merilee Dannemann President Trump is talking publicly about his plans to undermine the 2026 midterm election. I’m relieved. Why relieved? Because now that he is talking about it openly, we are also starting to hear about what’s being done, mostly by the states, to counteract those plans.
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15 Passover Seder events are listed in our Passover Seder Guide to NM, w RSVP deadlines. First Night Seders are April 1st. Second Night, April 2nd. Also, an early Community seder March 28 and a Pesach BBQ April 5th. Sign up to read and receive our newsletter and future Holiday Resource Guides!
Jewish Day of Observance
By Ron Duncan Hart April 18, 2026 Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a day to remember the unthinkable killing of 6 million Jews and other millions of Roma, communists, gay people and political dissidents by Germans crazed by Nazi supremacy ideology in the 1940s. Why have some groups
Iran
“You’ll never get out alive. You’re Jewish. You’re female. They’ll behead you, and they’ll post it on youtube.” "There’s NO American Embassy. You’ll rot in a rat-infested jail for the rest of your life” Those were some of the cheery reactions my friends had when I said I was going to Iran.
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
by Ron Duncan Hart Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was a unique influential rabbi of the late twentieth century, and his foundational book, Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age, published in 1975, has just been republished after fifty years.[i] Reb Zalman was born in Poland in
Op-ed
Senate Bill 1 passed to bring NM into the interstate licensure compact for doctors. Unfortunately, 8 other compacts failed to pass for psychologists, counselors, EMTs, PAs, speech therapists & audiologists, physical & occupational therapists, & dentists. They should be passed in a special session.
Profile
By Norma Libman He was born in Boston and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Eugene, Oregon, in Los Angeles, and in Israel. But before all that, he lived in Albuquerque. He grew up in Albuquerque, in the arms of Congregation Albert – in those
Jewish Day of Observance
By Ron Duncan Hart April 18, 2026 Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a day to remember the unthinkable killing of 6 million Jews and other millions of Roma, communists, gay people and political dissidents by Germans crazed by Nazi supremacy ideology in the 1940s. Why have some groups
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Gloria Abella Ballen
... about Walter Benjamin and the perfect place, the Neue Galerie, where I found his book, The Story Teller: Tales out of Loneliness.
Ron Duncan Hart
...to think of its aftermath, the sharp contrast between this celebration of life painted by Klimt and the Nazi wave of hatred that would destroy the Jewish life
Community News
Story and Photos by Diane Joy Schmidt Day of Celebration and Reflection February 4, 2026 was declared New Mexico Jewish Community Day at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, while the legislature was in session. Some twenty Jewish community organizations set up tables throughout the day in the West Hall — though