Local Jews are trying to buy back a historic synagogue building in tiny Las Vegas, NM
Jews in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a city of about 13,000, and about 20 Jews, roughly an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, want to buy back Temple Montefiore, the first synagogue in the New Mexico Territory.
The New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe.(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTAUpdated: