Winter Issue 2025
KEEP SCROLLING TO READ OUR NINE NEW EXCITING STORIES! From Sabra Minkus, Emily Alvarez, Gail Rubin, Dianne Layden, Jim Winnerman, Denise Suttle, Merilee Dannemann, Michael Baron, Larry Lesser, plus upcoming Community Events. Through the month of December we are having a Triple Match campaign. All details here on our Donate
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CBI
Welcome to Congregation B'nai Israel Here you will find the many events, services and activities of our 100+ year old community. (505) 266-0155 / 4401 Indian School Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 Read "Rabbi Hazzan Jonathan Angress: The Cantor is now the Rabbi" by Norma Libman Read
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CBI
Here you will find the many events, services and activities of our 100+ year old community. https://bnaiisrael-nm.org/ (505) 266-0155 / 4401 Indian School Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 REGISTER ONLINE FOR THE CBI Men's Club COMMUNITY PASSOVER BBQ Apr 5!: RSVP FOR B'NAI ISRAEL 2nd
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TEMPLE BETH SHALOM SANTA FE Come As You Are! https://www.sftbs.org Be sure to read the two-time award-winning story: "Rabbi Neil Amswych, Facing Challenges for Santa Fe's Jewish Community" by Brian Serle. "What an important story," the judge commented, Personality Profiles, NM
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First off, Saturday Nov. 1st, 5:15 "CULTURAL ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM and its Implications for American Jewry" lecture by Ron Duncan Hart, to be followed by Havdalah with Rabbi Neil Amswych. Temple Beth Shalom, Santa Fe. REGISTRATION REQUIRED: RSVP https://sftbs.shulcloud.com/form/havdalah.html/. By
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The New Mexico Jewish Journal is independent, we depend on your support, please donate, subscribe. Read all our Past Issues here, also, use the magnifying glass 🔍 Search icon above to find topics and authors. We have eleven new stories in, plus the October briefs NEWSLETTER with the latest community event
Hostages
All 20 hostages have arrived in Israel as of October 13th, 2025. VIEW how this is being reported around the world. View front page and homepage news around the world on the morning of Oct. 13. (Selected screenshots by Diane Joy Schmidt for NMJewishJournal.com - shared under fair use
immigration issues
By Emily Alvarez Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have made their mission clear: Detain and deport a record number of immigrants in the United States, regardless of criminal history or ties to the country. The heightened number of detentions and deportations has had catastrophic consequences
Jewish Films
"Freedom fighter, double agent, femme fatale — Tamar said she was all three. Decades after her death, a page she wrote in a diary from a Nazi-run women’s camp reveals a hidden identity, leading her journalist daughter on a global reckoning with the secrets she took to her grave.