The body of a former White House chef last seen setting off for a hike alone more than a week ago near Taos, New Mexico, has been found, according to media reports. Searchers late Sunday found Walter Scheib, 61, dead in a forest near Taos Ski Valley on the fifth day of the search-and-rescue mission,…
When I tell East Coast Jews that I’m from New Mexico, the first question out of their mouths is invariably, “Are there Jews in New Mexico?” Once I’ve quashed the temptation to shoot back, “What do YOU think?” I go on to explain. Yes, there are Jews in New Mexico. Yes, there is a synagogue…
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…
אַפֿילו בײַ אָרטאָדאָקסישע שולן גייען טייל גראַדואַנטן „אַראָפּ פֿון דרך.“ ווי קען מען בײַ זיי אָנהאַלטן דאָס פּינטעלע ייִד?
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