In the joyful month of May 2026 IYAR-SIVAN. NM Jewish Journal

We'd like to be festive. We're not sure we can let go for a second though or the whole place will unravel. My father used to say the only thing he could be sure of was the sun would come up in the morning. Now I have a friend who is unwaveringly upbeat in the face of a difficult diagnosis. That is a bright light of joy for me to think on. Here's what we've got for you in this issue:

We have won Fifty awards - five oh. So you'll want to see what those are.
Finding Your Inner West, An Urban Cowgirl Conversation with Corinne Joy Brown - Interview by Gloria Abella Ballen
A Menorah in the Hallway by Jackie Wald
The Most Antisemitic Experience of My Life by Judith Fein, photos by Paul Ross
Little Edna's War: An Extraordinary Child in the Warsaw Ghetto by Dianne S. Layden
Old People in Tennis Shoes, New Rules: 370,000 New Mexico Independents Can Now Choose by Karen Wentworth, Central NM League of Women Voters.

Finding Your Inner West: An Urban Cowgirl Conversation with Corinne Joy Brown

Interview by Gloria Abella Ballen How To Be An Urban Cowgirl & Find Your Inner West by Corinne Joy Brown has just been published, and we are delighted to share this interview excerpt conducted by Gloria Abella Ballen. TO ORDER: HOW TO BE AN URBAN COWGIRL Gloria Abella Ballen: Corinne, why

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A Menorah in the Hallway

By Jackie Wald We are all part of the worldwide Diaspora. Some places have little pockets of Jews, others large concentrations—think New York, Los Angeles, London… If you’re like me, it feels as though we are always looking at those around us, thinking hmmm, I wonder if s/

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The Most Antisemitic Experience of my Life

By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross When someone asks me why I became a travel journalist, I say it’s because I love learning. Every day I try to learn something new, and traveling is the best way to learn many new things at the same time. What I

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LITTLE EDNA’S WAR: An Extraordinary Child in the Warsaw Ghetto

by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. Janet Bond Brill spent 37 years with her mother-in-law Edna before losing her — and she refused to let Edna’s story disappear with her. The result is Little Edna’s War, a Warsaw memoir written in Edna’s own voice as a child, with

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Old People in Tennis Shoes, New Rules: 370,000 New Mexico Independents Can Now Choose

\by Karen Wentworth When I worked as a journalist many years ago for KOAT I covered the activities of many non-profit organizations. One of the most boring was the League of Women Voters. Year after year, they did the same things – put out Voter Guides with candidate questions and answers,

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New Mexico Jewish Journal Wins 9 Awards — Four 1st Place — at the Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies Contest in Denver — and the 2026 Season Is Just Getting Started

New Mexico Jewish Journal, in its second year, just took home 9 awards by 8 contributors – including 4 first-place wins – from the regional Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies contest. Among 2,000 entries from 100 newsrooms across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, NMJJ competed in the

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NM Jewish Journal Sweeps 2026 NM Press Women Awards, Wins First Prize Publication Award, with Ten First Places Among Forty Total

NM Jewish Journal Sweeps 2026 77th Annual NM Press Women Communications Contest. Wins FIRST PRIZE Publication with Ten First Place Awards and Forty Awards Total

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But, you may say, isn't that only 49? The 50th is the Prize for Publications. AND there's more coming - stay tuned, we won TWO Rockowers, tba June 4th - the "Jewish Pulitzers"! with 1% of the revenue of our competitors in the national Jewish press.

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OUR CURRENT ISSUE War: A Mirror to Ourselves · New Awards · To Be a Jew Is a Verb: A Las Cruces Family’s Century of Showing Up. · Concert: Joni and Leonard at the KiMo · Yom HaShoah at the Roundhouse with the Mayor of Santa Fe and both Majority and Minority Democratic

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APRIL 1, 2026 ~ NM Jewish Journal ~ 14 Nissan 5786 Happy Passover!

Happy Passover and Chag Sameach! Seven new stories! Our new series, New Mexico Jewish voices across the Spectrum, is introduced with three articles. The first Spectrum profile, by Ron Duncan Hart, highlights the work of Mikey Weinstein, Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder, whose battle against religious coercion in the U.

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