By Ellen Marks April 22, 2025 It’s all of this and more: A Santa Fe student with a marker pen drawing swastikas on a young Jewish classmate. Rabbis answering the phone only to be called “genocidal baby-killer” and to hear death threats. A Jewish district attorney receiving threats credible

Ron Duncan Hart April 22, 2025 As Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on April 23rd, it 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

Story and photographs by Lena S. Keslin April 22, 2025 There are times in our lives when an opportunity appears. We were invited to visit Spain on a Jewish Tour with Rabbi Howard Berman, a dear, lifelong friend, and some of his Boston congregation. I was excited because this trip

by Diane Joy Schmidt April 5, 2025 Celebrating our first year in publication, our voices are being heard in these difficult times and in the wider news ecosystem. In Denver Saturday night the New Mexico Jewish Journal won six awards in the highly competitive Society of Professional Journalists Top of

by Ron Duncan Hart April 22, 2025 The Institute for Tolerance Studies has announced its twentieth anniversary celebration led by key Jewish figures in the world of New Mexico music. Steven Ovitsky, the past executive director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, will open the celebration on June 8

April 11, 2025 The New Mexico Jewish Journal is pleased to share a group letter penned by a group of 14 of New Mexico’s rabbis, “because we want New Mexicans to know that leaders in our Jewish community oppose the Trump Administration’s detention of international students, actions which threaten

April 13, 2025 A letter from the League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico has let us know that the SAVE Act is likely to cause New Mexicans new problems at the polls: “The League is concerned because the SAVE Act punishes women for changing their names while pretending

March, 2025 By Merilee Danneman A special session for healthcare When the medical malpractice bill, Senate Bill 176, was killed in its first Senate committee, after more than 40 days of delay in that committee, I wondered whether that failure by itself would be enough to trigger a crisis response.

NMJJ felt this extraordinary interview with Israeli Oct. 7th survivor, border kibbutz resident, Haaretz journalist and “Gates of Gaza” author Amir Tibon, deserved to be transcribed and published here. This insightful and informed interview conducted by Bonnie Ellinger answers many questions we all have had, The interview, part of the