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Welcome to the AUGUST 2025 award-winning New Mexico Jewish Journal with 14 new articles. Share this newsletter with a friend, and ask them to sign up with a choice of a paid or free subscription. Every reader counts! SIGN UP AND SUBSCRIBE And Remember: keep coming back to the NMJJ
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Restaurant Review
By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross When the Manhattan Avenue Jewish deli opened in Santa Fe a few months ago, it brought on an attack of nostalgia for New York childhood ethnic food delights via the shtetls of Eastern Europe: knishes, chicken matzah ball soup, pickled herring, and real
Analysis
By Ron Duncan Hart Benjamin Netanyahu has long had a close bond with American Evangelicals, who he has repeatedly called Israel’s best friends in the world. Evangelicals tend to share Netanyahu’s political goals and have invited him frequently to speak at their events, and he, in turn, has
Commentary
by Diane Joy Schmidt Perhaps the brain fog is beginning to clear. On Saturday, June 14, while quite a few less than 200,000 turned out to watch Trump's parade in DC, almost 2% of the country, more than 5 million, turned out for "No Kings Day&
Jewish History US
by Jim Winnerman At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Jewish family loyalties mirrored what occurred throughout the United States where brother fought against brother. Jews also found themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield. Out of 150,000 Jews in the United States at the outbreak of
Crypto-Jewish History
By Nan Rubin Courtesy HaLapid, the journal of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies, April 14, 2021. The radio program "Search for the Buried Past: The Hidden Jews of New Mexico" first aired on National Public Radio in 1988 and I had no idea it would become a
Jewish Culture
By Misha Sauceda, with Samuel A year ago in March, Marty Sherman, from the Burial Committee, asked if the minyanaires could support a bar mitzvah for a young man named Samuel. His mother had died just a few weeks earlier, before he could complete this coming-of-age Jewish ceremony, and because
Book Review
Review by Anna Redsand In the first weeks of the current US administration, photos of World War II Diné (Navajo) Code Talkers were removed from US military websites. Due to intense protest, the images were later returned. In the meantime, the Poetry Foundation published something extraordinary, which turns out to
Music Review
By Bonnie Ellinger On June 11, 2025, the Institute for Tolerance Studies organized a celebratory concert of Jewish composers for its 20th anniversary at the CCA Munoz Waxman Gallery in Santa Fe. The Institute was established by Ron Duncan Hart and Gloria Abella Ballen for the purpose of addressing antisemitism,
JUNE NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the June ~ July Issue of the New Mexico Jewish Journal. Our recent successes include a new summer intern from the NM Local News Fellows and Interns Program and two Rockower awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism tba next week, after sweeping 6 Society of Professional Journalists and 25
News
by Diane Joy Schmidt With almost 1200 entries, the New Mexico Jewish Journal walked away with two Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, the "Jewish Pulitzers," at Monday night's American Jewish Press Association banquet in Pittsburgh. And two more national awards, from the National Federation