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Newsletter

Halloween Briefs from New Mexico Jewish Journal Oct. 31, 2025

First off, Saturday Nov. 1st, 5:15 "CULTURAL ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM and its Implications for American Jewry" lecture by Ron Duncan Hart, to be followed by Havdalah with Rabbi Neil Amswych. Temple Beth Shalom, Santa Fe. REGISTRATION REQUIRED: RSVP https://sftbs.shulcloud.com/form/havdalah.html/. By

Newsletter

October - November ~ NEW MEXICO JEWISH JOURNAL 2025 / 5786

The New Mexico Jewish Journal is independent, we depend on your support, please donate, subscribe. Read all our Past Issues here, also, use the magnifying glass 🔍 Search icon above to find topics and authors. We have eleven new stories in, plus the October briefs NEWSLETTER with the latest community event

Hostages

ALL 20 HOSTAGES RELEASED - See NEWS around the World

All 20 hostages have arrived in Israel as of October 13th, 2025. VIEW how this is being reported around the world. View front page and homepage news around the world on the morning of Oct. 13. (Selected screenshots by Diane Joy Schmidt for NMJewishJournal.com - shared under fair use

Jewish History New Mexico

How The David Specter Shalom House and the Ronald Gardenswartz Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque Came to Be

By Howard Friedman David (Dave) Specter was a local Albuquerque businessman and co-owner of Zeon signs. His elderly mother was in poor health and he wanted to find a facility that catered to senior Jews who needed a place to live where they could be cared for. Since there was

Rosh HaShanah

High Holidays 5786 L'Shanah Tovah ~ New Mexico Jewish Journal Holiday Newsletter with Events listings

Shanah Tovah! CLICK here to continue reading! Wishing you a Happy New Year for Rosh Hashanah, 5786. Sukkot is being celebrated now from the evening of October 6th through Oct. 13th. Scroll down to see more than 20 community events. See Sukkot events Oct. 10th TBS Santa Fe; Oct. 12

US History

The Inside Story of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo

By Bobbie Greene Kilberg Blue Lake is a sacred site for the Taos Pueblo, central to their religion, and in 1906 Blue Lake and its surrounding 48,000 acres of watershed land were taken away from the Pueblo by the Federal Government and incorporated into the neighboring national forest. The

Profile

Rabbi Dr. Jack Shlachter: Thirty Years as a Rabbi

Interview with Gloria Abella Ballen and Ron Duncan Hart Rabbi Dr. Jack Shlachter is the rabbi of the Los Alamos Jewish Center and HaMakom in Santa Fe. He is a physicist and the past Head of the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. This interview, edited for clarity, is

Jewish History

100 Objects from YIVO Reviewed by Ilan Stavans

by Ilan Stavans In the mid-1980s, as a 25-year-old newly minted Yiddish-speaking immigrant from Mexico to New York, I had two institutions I was eager to be involved with: Forverts, the left-leaning Yiddish daily edited by Abraham Cahan, where Isaac Bashevis Singer, the author of Satan in Goray, The Slave,

Profiles

Clergy Retirement as Re”wire”ment

By Cantor Barbara Finn In this article, compiled and edited by Cantor Barbara Finn, is a delightful sharing of some of the ways our local retired clergy are spending their time. Rabbi Deborah Brin retired twice. The first time was without any planning or intention. She quit her job when

US History

Tribute to Frances Levine’s New Book, Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail

By Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. Frances Levine will speak about Jewish women and men on the Santa Fe Trail on Zoom on September 8, 2025, 7:00 PM. Register with the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, 505-348-4471 or BIT.LY/NMJHS-FL. Dr. Frances Levine is well known in New

Traveling while Jewish

From Mabel Dodge Luhan to Rosh Hashanah: An Unexpected Connection

by Corinne Joy Brown Creatives of every kind seem drawn to New Mexico, in part for the stimulation of the scenery and varied culture, and often, to connect with artistic communities that abound there. It’s well known that the “Land of Enchantment” is home to writers and visual artists