New Mexico Jewish Journal May 2025 Issue

The New Mexico Jewish Journal is now publishing monthly with news articles and current event flyers. This issue, published on May 18th, features six articles, plus news updates and community events. Shavuot begins June 1st. Subscribe, contribute, donate. We are supported only by you, our readers. The NMJJ is an independent, state-wide journal to connect the wildly diverse Jewish communities of New Mexico and its neighbors with news, arts, culture and spirituality.

As Wagner’s German opera house addresses his antisemitism, one of his most famous works is coming to the Santa Fe Opera this summer.

By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross About ten years ago, a fellow opera lover gave me a DVD of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. I had little interest in the German composer (1813-1883) who I was told was a pretty awful human being. He milked his friends like cash

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The Torah in the Tarot

by Corinne Joy Brown In the rarefied world of Jewish mysticism, the study of Kabbalah and its sacred texts immediately come to mind, unlike methods of secular divination such as astrology, the reading of tea leaves, or the interpretation of Tarot cards. Until now. Thanks to the research of Stav

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Choosing One’s Parents

By Bonnie Ellinger One of the very appealing kibbutz customs is the assigning of a “family” to newcomers. The families are usually long-time kibbutz members who volunteer to be welcoming insiders to facilitate the absorption into the kibbutz of new arrivals. My Zionist youth group friends and I, on a

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Meet Ron Winger, President of the Board of the JCC of Greater Albuquerque

by Michael Wald Ron Winger is now ten months into a two-year term as president of the Jewish Community Center of Albuquerque, following a long career as a senior health care leader. He has been President/CEO at both profit and nonprofit hospitals/health systems around the country, including St.

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Jewish Values: Shmirat ha Adama

By Rabbi Min Kantrowitz Each edition of NMJJ highlights one of the many Jewish values that guide our lives. Each of these values underlies our Jewish community, regardless of any individuals’ religious observances or practices. These values form the ethical structure of the community. They are not presented in order

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36 Former Major Jewish Organization Leaders reprimand current leadership for being “far too silent” in Open Letter in NYT.

by Diane Joy Schmidt May 18, 2025 In an open letter that ran as an ad in the New York Times on May 8, 2025 criticizing Trump’s crackdown on universities and protestors in the name of fighting antisemitism, former directors and chairs of the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League,

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Noted: Two Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism won by NM Jewish Journal writers ~ Jewish Heritage Month Proclamation presented by Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber and reported by SF New Mexican ~ Sami Rohr Prize $100,000 Fiction Finalists.

Compiled by NMJJ Staff

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