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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
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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
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by Diane Joy Schmidt Celebrating our first year in publication, our voices are being heard in these difficult times and in the wider news ecosystem. Latest update added May 18, 2025; In Denver Saturday night, April 5, 2025, the New Mexico Jewish Journal won six awards in the highly competitive
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Ron Duncan Hart April 22, 2025 As Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on April 23rd, it 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
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March, 2025 By Merilee Dannemann A special session for healthcare When the medical malpractice bill, Senate Bill 176, was killed in its first Senate committee, after more than 40 days of delay in that committee, I wondered whether that failure by itself would be enough to trigger a crisis response.
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League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico April 13, 2025 A letter from the League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico has let us know that the SAVE Act is likely to cause New Mexicans new problems at the polls: “The League is concerned because the SAVE Act