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TEMPLE BETH SHALOM SANTA FE Come As You Are! https://www.sftbs.org Chanukah Dinner Volunteers Needed For our Chanukah dinner on Friday night, December 11 – we are asking for volunteers. We need help decorating, setting tables, serving food. Depending on your schedule and the temple’s schedule – we can
Fiction
by Gabriel Lampert NMJJ Vol.1 No.4. The story "Perfidious" was first published in Jewish Fiction. Los Lunas, NM, June 1942 I hate arguments. If I lose, it makes me feel small. If I win, I can feel the other person’s hate. I’ve always run
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
Traveling while Jewish
Story and Photos by Lena S. Keslin 1st place, New Mexico Press Women, and 3rd, National Federation of Press Women, 2025. Subsequently reprinted by HaLapid: Society of Crypto-Jewish Studies, across 4 color print pages. It’s interesting how some memories can stay with us for many years. In 1984
Traveling while Jewish
by Edie Jarolim When I received my brown cardboard-encased review copy of the Holocaust: A Guide to Europe’s Sites, Memorials & Museums in the mail, I approached the package with a mix of curiosity and trepidation: curiosity because, as a guidebook author and editor, I was interested in
NM History
by Isabelle Medina Sandoval The text from my granddaughter Gabriella confirmed that she received my messages answering her question regarding the etymology of biscochito. Under Roman rule, Italians created the twice baked biscotti cooked with almonds or anise. Latin specified bi for two and coctus for cooked/baked according to
Profile
By Norma Libman You could say that Rabbi Hazzan Jonathan Angress became a cantor and a rabbi, and now lives in Albuquerque and serves Congregation B’nai Israel, because he fell in love with Fiddler on the Roof. But it’s a little more complicated than that. For starters, he
Israel after October 7th
Nothing prepared me for going to “Hostage Square” in the courtyard of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. There, exhibits recreating Hamas tunnels, graves of those murdered on October 7, actual family members sitting in tents telling the stories...
Book Review
By Ron Duncan Hart Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum has written a book of major importance for contemporary Jews who are critical thinkers. Those who have read Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, or any of the myriad Jewish philosophers since the Enlightenment may be left questioning the biblical narratives in Genesis and
Food
By Claudette Sutton Photos by Lacee Brunn As Hanukkah approaches, I’m looking for good omens and signs of serendipity wherever I can find them. Hanukkah commemorates the revolt of the Maccabees, a small, upstart band of Jews in the second century BCE against the religious oppression of the powerful
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS The WINTER ISSUE of the New Mexico Jewish Journal is now live online. There are 19 stories, which you can access at the links below as well as on the site, and a special 2x match for December. We'll keep you posted on the progress
Fiction
Adapted by Batya Podos The Hannukah blessing was the first Hebrew blessing I learned. My family wasn’t very observant—we were High Holidays/Pesach Jews--but we always lit candles on Hannukah. I loved my hannukiah, and was proud that I could chant the blessing over the candles, but