Film follows strands of NM’s Jewish history

A. L. Zinn, prominent Jewish lawyer
and judge, got his professional start in
Tucumcari during the homesteading days.

(Albuquerque Journal) ... In the new film “Challah Rising in the Desert,” the five waves of Jewish populations moving to New Mexico are explained using a five-stranded loaf of challah.
One of the scenes, from Albuquerque’s Congregation Albert, shows the volunteer bakers prepping for Shabbat dinner, but not without putting some New Mexico flair on the traditional Jewish bread by mixing the dough with green chile. Continued