Claudette Sutton

Mar 28, 2025 | nmjewishjournal.com | Judith Fein |Claudette Sutton

By Judith Fein Photographs by Paul Ross It started a few weeks ago in Santa Fe. The passport line snaked out the door of the post office and almost everyone on it was Latino or Hispanic and was accompanied by children. The people didn’t necessarily know each other but they had one thing in common: concern that the right for children born in the USA to be American citizens was in danger of being stripped away.

Mar 28, 2025 | nmjewishjournal.com | Claudette Sutton |Diane Schmidt

by Diane Joy SchmidtMarch 28, 2025With our Spring 2025 issue, the independent, state-wide New Mexico Jewish Journal marks its one-year anniversary. We have made remarkable strides. Since our first Spring Issue published online March 18th, 2024 we have been warmly embraced by the Jewish community and the larger community. As one new subscriber wrote, “I’m really happy that New Mexico Jewish Journal exists.

Mar 28, 2025 | nmjewishjournal.com | Claudette Sutton |Diane Schmidt

by Diane Joy SchmidtAnother month has passed and the fear of the assault on American democracy has spilled over us while edicts issued from the Oval office a month ago seem like a year ago. Is the coalescence of governing forces today pushing the United States toward rule by oligarchy under an AI-driven corporate American, Christian Nationalist regime profiting from its control of power?