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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
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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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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 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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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
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By Dan Pava, Santa Fe March 28, 2025 Readers of the New Mexico Jewish Journal may not be aware of an important election that affects Israel and Judaism and is happening now. While New Mexican Jews are preparing for Passover, the holiday celebrating our redemption and freedom, there is a
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February 23, 2025 By Bonnie Ellinger In the aftermath of October 7th, one place that symbolizes the agony, grief and torment of the massacre is Kibbutz Nir Oz. Twenty-five percent of its 400 members/residents were either brutally murdered or taken hostage, and much of the kibbutz was burned to
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By Joanna Colangelo February 23, 2025 In January, the Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico (JCFNM) named Sarah Winger as the new Executive Director, assuming the role in March after the retirement of founding Executive Director, Erika Rimson. Sarah joins the JCFNM from UNM Hospital where she was the Director