By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross Update: The Jewish community in Bayreuth Germany has chosen to run this article on their website at ikgbayreuth.de About ten years ago, a fellow opera lover gave me a DVD of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. I had little interest in the
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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
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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
Traveling while Jewish
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
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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,
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by Diane Joy Schmidt Almost a hundred days have passed since January 20, 2025 and the fear of the assault on American democracy has spilled over us while edicts issued from the Oval office a week ago seem like a year ago, the energy of assault being the point. Editor&
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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