Antisemitism
By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross When someone asks me why I became a travel journalist, I say it’s because I love learning. Every day I try to learn something new, and traveling is the best way to learn many new things at the same time. What I
Traveling while Jewish
by Judith Fein When I met an affable local guide in Catalunya, I innocently asked if anything unusual was happening during the current Semana Santa or Holy Week, which included both Easter and Passover. “Well,” she began, “perhaps you have heard of the Catalonian desserts called brunyols, which are fried
Jewish Day of Observance
By Ron Duncan Hart April 18, 2026 Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, 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 the 1940s. Why have some groups
Jewish Day of Observance
By Ron Duncan Hart April 18, 2026 Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, 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 the 1940s. Why have some groups
Opinion
by Rev. Dr. Charles E. Becknell Sr. We live in a time when hate has continued to rear its ugly and destructive head. It is my belief that hate cannot only be destructive but also devastating. Hate is a learned emotion. When children are born, they do not come into
News
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
News
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
News
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,
Essay
By Didi Rosenthal March 28, 2025 I remember when I asked my mother about whether she ever felt resentful about the German citizenry not protesting the attacks on Jews during the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust. She responded that she really didn’t blame others because they and their
Antisemitism
Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston As part of Harvard University’s agreement in response to two federal lawsuits filed by Jewish students alleging antisemitic discrimination, it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, “working definition” of antisemitism. This is a definition favored by many Jewish community leaders and
Rockower 2025
Second Place, Rockower Award Winner 2025, Category Israel at War/ Schools and Universities, American Jewish Press Association. December 4th, 2024 By Nicole Osbourne The statement “as a Jew” is a frequent phrase on the campus of the University of New Mexico. In April, it littered the Student Union Building in
Analysis
by Norma Libman Imagine you’d been told for most of your life that your family has a Jewish history but it isn’t safe to tell people about it. In recent years, even though you’re a practicing Catholic, or a Protestant, you’ve been curious about Judaism and