Fancy some green chili in your matzo brei on Passover? Then you should go to New Mexico. Here are six things about Jewish New Mexico you should know. 1) New Mexico is home to many of the last crypto-Jews, who claim that their ancestors fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition to escape persecution. Over…
The Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico passed a resolution calling for the university to divest from companies that operate in the West Bank. The resolution, which passed on Saturday, calls on the university to divest from companies that “directly profit from the ongoing violations of international law and human…
A man being held in connection with two incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism at a Jewish deli in Albuquerque, N.M., has been ordered held in a federal prison hospital. John Ng, 56, reportedly will receive treatment in the hospital at a prison in North Carolina. His attorney had argued that he is not a threat to…
A vigil was held to show solidarity with a New Mexico deli that has been targeted by anti-Semitic messages. The Thursday night vigil took place outside Albuquerque’s Nosh deli, which has had mailing labels scrawled with anti- Semitic messages left on its front door in two separate incidents. The vigil drew more than 100 people,…
A Jewish deli in Albuquerque was targeted again by anti-Semitic vandalism, for the second time in about two weeks. Mailing labels with anti-Semitic slurs written on them were stuck to the front door of Nosh Deli on Saturday, KOB Eyewitness News 4 in Albuquerque reported. On Sunday, the stickers were pasted on the restaurant and…
The owner of a Jewish deli in Albuquerque found an anti-Semitic message stuck to her establishment’s front door on a mailing label. “To the Kikes who should die,” the message stuck on the front door of the Nosh Deli said, KOB News reported. A second label read “To the Kikes who gave me a black…
In 1996, Alan Webber launched Fast Company magazine as a hybrid of “Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.” The same energy hovers around his recently announced run for Governor of New Mexico. A Tweet kicked off the campaign; a few days later, Webber confirmed the run with a simple “Yeah” in a Santa Fe…
Billionaire financier Louis Bacon is buying Taos Ski Valley, a New Mexico ski resort founded by a Jew who fled Nazi Germany and whose family has owned Taos ever since. The ski area was established in the mid-1950s by Ernie Blake, a German Jew born Ernst Hermann Bloch who emigrated from Germany in 1938 and…
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