Calendar
Information on individual events listed below.
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The Color of Jews
Presented by Dr. Sarah Leiter
May 20, 2026 at 6pm
via Zoom (meeting link will be sent out 1 week prior to the program)
Does “Jewish” refer to an ethnicity? A religion? A people? Something else? In this talk, participants will be invited to consider some of the many ways of being Jewish in today’s world. Sarah Leiter will guide this exploration of Jewishness by drawing on her ethnographic research among Sephardic descendants in New Mexico, Black Hebrew-Israelites in Chicago, and prospective converts to Judaism in Brazil.
Dr. Sarah Leiter, PhD, is a 2025-2026 fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in sociocultural and linguistic anthropology from the University of New Mexico, where she researched identity and narratives among New Mexicans of Sephardic descent. Sarah is also a former NMJHS executive board member.
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NMJHS Annual Business Meeting & Speaker Program
The Jews of Afghanistan
Presented by Dr. Sara Koplik
June 7, 2026
NMJHS Annual Business Meeting at 1pm
Speaker Program at 1:45pm
Temple Beth Shalom
205 East Barcelona, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Sara Koplik, Ph.D. is the author of A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan, was the editor of the New Mexico Jewish Link, and is currently the director of the Aaron David Bram Hillel House at the University of New Mexico. She founded the Sephardic heritage program at the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, and from 2016 to 2021 helped thousands of individuals across the world certify their ancestral Sephardic roots.
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