Rabbi Micah Citrin Joins Congregation Albert; Reb Zalman Schlacter-Shalomi's "Fragments of a Future Age, Hasidim for the Aquarian Age" 50th Anniversary Edition (already?!); What's it Like in Iran - really?, Judith Fein clues us in. Fifteen Seders in New Mexico, and counting. Enjoy!

Rabbi Micah Citrin Joins Senior Rabbi Celia Surget at Congregation Albert

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

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What is it like in Iran — really?

By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross Editor’s Note: Judith Fein went to Iran almost a decade ago. Her reporting was then published nationally and internationally, including in the Jerusalem Post and Dallas Morning News. This article is drawn from those original writings and contains her surprise at how friendly

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The Spiritual Path of a Maestro: 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 1924

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Pass the rest of the health care worker compacts this year

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.

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15 PASSOVER SEDERS TO ATTEND IN NEW MEXICO & Trinidad, CO!

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!

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March 1 Issue

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

...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

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Finding Walter Benjamin in the Neue Galerie

... about Walter Benjamin and the perfect place, the Neue Galerie, where I found his book, The Story Teller: Tales out of Loneliness.

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We came for one reason or another, for Jewish Community Day

We all came to the Capitol, for one reason or another, for Jewish Community Day.

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The Search is the Goal: A Review of El Iluminado and a Conversation with Ilan Stavans

by Corinne Joy Brown What happens when a professor of Spanish literature and language becomes a character in his own graphic novel, functioning as both author and subject? Nothing less than the creation of a story that holds more suspense and depth than the best “who-dunnit” ever written, one where

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Flourish and Struggle: The Elusive Jewish Communities of Barcelona

By Jonah Wald During December of 2025 and going into the January of 2026 I went with my family to Barcelona, Spain. We learned a lot about the rich history of this area and I became very interested. These are some things I learned on my trip. The Spanish Inquisition

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New Mexican by Proxy or How My Soul Came to Belong to New Mexico

by Corinne Joy Brown Citizens of New Mexico fascinate me. Native Americans, settlers, adventurers, retirees, and transplants. People who arrived by accident and others who came for a reason. Some who thought they were merely passing through, then realized, decades later, they never left. Let’s not leave out the

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My Relationship Wasn’t Great, But His Father Changed My Life

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Breakthrough Musical Theatre: Metropolitan Opera’s The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay

By Judith Fein It is very rare that I weep in the dark because I am so moved, hold my breath from the brilliance of a production, or watch an almost three-hour show and immediately want to see it again. And I can’t recall whispering, “How did they do

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Rachel Cockerell’s Melting Point: The Galveston Movement of 1907-1914

by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. In her remarkable first book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land, Rachel Cockerell presents history and memoir in an experimental format in which original source material, with all its nuances, is presented as historical context – the search in the

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Hidden in Plain Sight, Unearthing the Subterranean Mikveh of Ortigia, Sicily

Story and Photos by Lena S. Keslin “To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the key to everything.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816 My friend, Judith Zorzy, had been telling me about the beauty and history of Ortigia

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FEBRUARY and so on...

A Heartfelt Farewell from Phyllis Wolf

Phyllis Wolf, Chief Programs Officer, Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque Editor’s Note: When I got Phyllis’s note that she would be saying farewell at the end of April I spontaneously wrote this letter to her, one of many that she has received, and she has written a letter to

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Seeds of Love

An excerpt from the forthcoming book Original Love, by Glenn Aparicio Parry In his new book, Original Love, Glenn Aparicio Parry delves into the spiritual origins and deeper universal meaning of LOVE. Original love is love from the origin or Source, and as such transcends any limitations of time or

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