Congregation Beit Tikva started at a Passover Seder in April of 1995. The group met in a private home every Friday night for services after the first
The settlement of New Mexico’s Ashkenazi Jews from Germany and other European countries began with the merchants who traversed the Santa Fe Trail from 1848
In the 1930s, a small group of business owners in Santa Fe started a branch of B’nai B’rith, which means “sons of the covenant” in
In 1930 an old 1776 map by Jose de Urruitia of La Villa Real de la Santa Fe came to the attention of a visiting
Nambe Pueblo, which is located at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 15 miles from Santa Fe, was one of the Native American
The Santa Fe Opera is back and off to a busy season after skipping last summer when the entire planet shut down during the pandemic.
The first recorded artist Bernardo Miera y Pacheco was a cartographer, artist, sculptor and soldier. He was born in Burgos, Spain. His father was don Luis
The artist Andrea “Drew” Bacigalupa and his wife Ellen moved to Santa Fe in 1954 because of its European ambiance. They remodeled an old adobe
An on-going papal connection was ever-present in the life of the late artist Andrea “Drew” Bacigalupa. The artist died in March 2015 at the age
Fray Angelico Chavez was born in 1910 and died in 1996. A member of one of Santa Fe’s founding families, he is considered the preimminent
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