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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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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 Norma Libman It seems an unusual path, but when you look at it closely it all makes sense. Born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, to a Jewish American mother and a Catholic French father, how did Celia Surget find her way to the rabbinate and Congregation Albert in Albuquerque,
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March 28, 2025 I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Juan Dircie recently, the new Director of the Jewish Community Relations Coalition of New Mexico and quickly realized that he brings a rich background of experience in Jewish community non-profit work. His engaging personality and quick smile immediately puts one
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by Jim Winnerman March 28, 2025 When Rabbi Shavit-Lonstein was a first-year student at Washington University in 1984, he never expected he would be a rabbi conducting Bar and Bat mitzvah ceremonies for a congregation of 340 families with no building, and which only practices Judaism outdoors. “It was Rabbi
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February 23, 2025 by Ron Duncan Hart Kudos to Opera Southwest and the National Institute of Flamenco for their remarkable production and World Premiere of Adam Del Monte’s Llantos 1492: A Flamenco Opera! Now, that’s a delightful twist—an opera sung in both Spanish and Hebrew about the
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By Martin Finston, Q&A with Rabbi Hazzan Jonathan Angress Congregation B’nai Israel’s Big Event this year will feature Lauren Molina, a multiple award-winning actress and singer. Ms. Molina’s Broadway recent credits include leading roles in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd and the Broadway run
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By Sarah Arrowsmith The Talmud, the core text of Rabbinical Judaism, is a long, complicated, and self-referential work. It is written in a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic, pulls quotes from the Tanakh without citations, and uses frequent acronyms. On a single page, you might see the mishnah and gemara,
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