TOP 101 Most Read Articles in 2025!

Compiled by Diane Joy Schmidt, Publisher and Editor

MOST READ ARTICLES IN 2025 *asterisk indicates published in 2024. To read an article, click on the title if active or copy the title to Search magnifying glass icon, upper left on top of page. Search also by author name for all their works. "Most viewed" source: Google Analytics. ALSO: explore the PAST ISSUES tab.
We will be submitting many of these articles to journalism contests - let us know if you have favorites we should submit! Write to editor@nmjewishjournal.com.

1. I Have No Beef With the Manhattan Avenue Kosher Deli in Santa Fe by Judith Fein
2. The Torah in the Tarot by Stav Appel, coming from Ayin Press/NY by Corinne Joy Brown
3. The Inside Story of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo by Bobbie Greene Kilberg
4. Netanyahu, American Evangelicals and Israel by Ron Duncan Hart
5. About New Mexico Jewish Journal by Editor
6. Meet Juan Dircie by Ron Duncan Hart
7. Rabbi Celia Surget Finds a Home at Congregation Albert by Norma Libman
8. As Wagner's German opera house addresses his antisemitism, one of his most famous works is coming to the Santa Fe Opera this summer by Judith Fein
9. Life Cycle Announcements by Editor 
10. "Wrestling with Public Statements," by Rabbi Neil Amswych, Temple Beth Shalom, Santa Fe 
11. A Dazzling Fashion Show for the Most Famous Jewish Mother in the World by Judith Fein
12. Basque Country - Spain Discovering a New Mexico Connection and a 500-Year-Old Agreement With the Jews by Carl Montoya
13. SCJS Origins: 35 years of the Hidden Jews of New Mexico! by Nan Rubin
14. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS and DONATIONS by Ed.
15. Borges’ Jewish Roots by Ilan Stavans
16. Hidden in Plain Sight, The Alhambra in Granada, Spain by Lena S. Keslin
17. A Long Journey Home by Sabra Minkus
18. Local Non-Profits Empower Immigrant Families To Fight Fear With Preparation by Emily Alvarez
19. Jews in the Civil War: Were they Union or Confederate? by Jim Winnerman
20. “We Cannot Be Defined by the Hatred of Others," Antisemitism in New Mexico Now by Ellen Marks
21. October - November ~ NEW MEXICO JEWISH JOURNAL 2025 / 5786
22. The New Mexico Biscochito Trail: Origin of the Biscochito by Isabelle Medina Sandoval
23. 36 Former Major Jewish Organization Leaders reprimand current leadership for being "far too silent" in Open Letter in NYT by Diane Joy Schmidt
24. New Mexico Jewish Journal May 2025 Issue by Editor
25. Sarah Winger Joins the Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico as New Executive Director by Joanna Colangelo
26. Personal essay written on Oct. 13th from Marisa Fox, the Filmmaker of "My Underground Mother" SFIFF Official Selection by Marisa Fox
27. Hidden in Plain Sight, The Old Jewish Cemetery on the Lido, one of the many islands of Venice, Italy by Lena S. Keslin
28. FALL ISSUE 2025 ~ NEW MEXICO JEWISH JOURNAL ~ ELUL 5785
29. With communal spirit, Nir Oz will rise again by Bonnie Ellinger
30. Letter from NM Rabbis Opposing Trump Detentions and Defunding Universities, to Jewish Communities of NM with Rabbi Jack Shlachter
31. *Rabbi Neil Amswych, Facing Challenges for Santa Fe’s Jewish Community by Brian Serle
32. Ken Elsas Mayers and his American Jewish Story by Ron Duncan Hart
33. How The David Specter Shalom House and the Ronald Gardenswartz Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque Came to Be by Howard Friedman
34. The Most Important Election That You Haven’t Heard About… by Dan Pava
35. From Mabel Dodge Luhan to Rosh Hashanah: An Unexpected Connection by Corinne Joy Brown
36. A Hidden Jewish Voice from the Spanish Inquisition: Torture in Cartagena by Ron Duncan Hart
37. New Mexico’s Serious Medical Malpractice Issue by Merilee Dannemann
38. The Method to Their Madness by Diane Joy Schmidt
39. Generational Trauma in the Age of Fascism by Didi Rosenthal
40. Rabbi Dr. Jack Shlachter: Thirty Years as a Rabbi by Ron Duncan Hart
41. Clergy Retirement as Re”wire”ment by Cantor Barbara Finn
42. Carrasco's Crypto-Judaic Music Video an Official Selection for the Silver City Film Festival by Blanca Carrasco, Joel Carrasco, Larry Lesser, & Kim Ryan 
43. How attending a Wagner opera can be fun and not ponderous by Judith Fein
44. Meet Ron Winger, President of the Board of the JCC of Greater Albuquerque by Michael Wald
45. Tribute to Frances Levine’s New Book, Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D.
46. Jewish Values: B’Tzelem Elohim "in the image of God” by Rabbi Min Kantrowitz
47. "The Gates of Gaza" Israeli Journalist and Author Amir Tibon interviewed by Bonnie Ellinger - video and transcript
48. *Jews and Christian Nationalism by Ron Duncan Hart
49. 100 Objects from YIVO Reviewed by Ilan Stavans
50. A Jewish and Navajo marriage at the New Year of the Trees by Diane Joy Schmidt 
51. Latino Immigrants Today, Jewish Immigrants Back Then by Judith Fein
52. Run for Their Lives: A Global Movement for Hostage Awareness. Regular time: Sundays JCC
53. The Life of a Jewish Student on Campus: Persisting despite the fear by Nicole Osbourne
54. Happy Chanukah New Mexico Jewish Journal ~ Children's Art from B'nai Israel ~ Welcome new RABBI MICAH CITRIN see video! ~ BBYO Experience by a Teen ~
55. Past Issues - New Mexico Jewish Journal by Ed.
56. And I didn't speak up… by Diane Joy Schmidt
57. "Write On NM!" with Letter-to-Editor List by State
58. "We Cannot Be Defined by the Hatred of Others," Antisemitism Here and Now
59. "Extinguished Lives" world-premier short documentary; interview with filmmaker Roberta Grossman, SFIFF OFFICIAL SELECTION by Diane Joy Schmidt
60. Choosing One’s Parents by Bonnie Ellinger
61. New Mexico Jewish Journal celebrates our first birthday! And sweeps NM Press Women Communications Contest!
62. REFORM MOVEMENT STATEMENT ON STARVATION IN GAZA Central Conference of American Rabbis
63. WINTER ISSUE 2025 ~ NEW MEXICO JEWISH JOURNAL ~ KISLEV 5786
64. Jews and the Crisis of the Religious Right in America
65. Our Kafkaesque Immigration System 2.0 by Emily Alvarez
66. Synagogue Without Walls ~ Into the Wilderness by Jim Winnerman
67. * The Fifth Question by Diane Joy Schmidt
68. * Rabbi Hazzan Jonathan Angress: The Cantor is Now also the Rabbi by Norma Libman
69. * Some personal thoughts on broader effects of the U.S. election by Diane Joy Schmidt
70. Cambridge: Where Erasmus Once Tread
71. Etty and the Etty Project: Susan Stein in New Mexico
72. Jewish Values: Rodef Shalom – Pursue Peace 
73. *Crypto-Jews Face a Rise in Anti-Semitism 
74. Llantos 1492: A Flamenco Opera
75. *At UNM Board of Regents meeting, protesters and Jewish students square off
76. Halloween Briefs from New Mexico Jewish Journal Oct. 31, 2025
77. People of the Artichoke: How a Scrubland Thistle Became a Culinary Icon By Claudette Sutton
78. *Hidden In Plain Sight, Amsterdam by Lena S. Keslin
79. The Results Are in for the Most Important Election That You Haven’t Heard About…. by Dan Pava
80. A censored essay reveals its truth again this Tisha B’av by Diane Joy Schmidt
81. MIKVAH refresh your creativity poems, stories, art by Editor
82. "Chevra Kadisha: The Last Responders," Conference gathering at Camp Ramah, Ojai by Gail Rubin, CT
83. *Crypto-Jews Face a Rise in Antisemitism by Norma Libman
84. Issue 1 - New Mexico Jewish Journal by Editor
85. The Institute for Tolerance Studies Makes Music
86. Perfidious
87. Pre-Pesach Letter from Rabbis: "To Jewish Communities of New Mexico." April 11th Newsletter of the New Mexico Jewish Journal
88. WHERE THE NORTH ENDS, A Novel by Hugo Moreno ~ Accused of being a Crypto-Jew in 17th century New Mexico ~ forthcoming from UNM Press
89. Looking for a Protest by Rabbi Gershon Winkler
90. Jewish Values: Love your neighbor as yourself by Rabbi Min Kantrowitz
91. New Mexico Jewish Journal wins two national journalism Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association, the "Jewish Pulitzers.” by Diane Joy Schmidt
92. The New Mexico Jewish Journal is now live!
93. Why I Love the Talmud (and You Should Too!)
94. Yom HaShoah
95. BUY A BURIAL PLOT ~ SAVE OUR COMMUNITY'S JEWISH CEMETERY
96. “Love and Hope” The Big Event comes to CBI
97. Dark Money Group Unmasked by the New Mexico Ethics Commission by Fred Nathan, Think New Mexico
98. Do You Know What Your School Board Candidates Think About Anything? Maybe it’s Time to Find Out by Karen Wentworth LWV of Central NM
99. *More than 50 Reliable, Varied Sources of News, Analysis and Opinion About Israel and the US compiled by Editor
100. *Ron Duncan Hart - New Mexico Jewish Journal (see all articles by RDH)
101. 101. *Finding the Jewish Community in Panama: Bagels in the Boondocks by Michael Wald