You are invited to join us this Sunday June 23rd from 11 am – 1 pm to explore how Jewish values inform sustainable living, and greet summer with a new baby goat and chickens, at 1492 Cherryvale Road, Boulder (across the street from Bonai Shalom — on the path north of the house).

Hear a Jewish animal story and learn how to milk the goats.  Cluck to the chickens and definitely play with Shira, the new kid!

Individuals and families welcome. If you are interested in joining any of the co-ops, please let us know upon your visit.

Please park just north on the west side of the street at Aish Kodesh, 1545 Cherryvale Road, or by turning into the driveway directly south of the Bonai Shalom parking lot. (Please do NOT park in the Bonai parking lot as Sunday School is occurring.)

RSVP is requested but not required to Ben Brumbaugh: Brumbaugh.Ben@gmail.com (preferred) or 201-919-4297.  See you there!

Found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jubilees retells a large section of the Torah in surprising ways.  As explained by Naomi, Jubilees provides fresh insights into both the original Torah stories and the rabbinical reworkings of those stories known as Midrash.

This program will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 from 7-9 pm. At Congregation Bonai Shalom, 1527 Cherryvale Road, Boulder. Class is free but donations are gratefully accepted.  Hope to see you there!

The weekly Radio Chavurah show airs on Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm on 990 KRKS-AM and is available on the web. The episode for Sunday, June 16 featured highlights from the Festival - click to listen online.

With the fabulous festival entertainment as a background soundtrack, Dean and Maxwell interviewed Adventure Rabbi Jamie Korngold, Hazon’s Nigel Savage and Becky O’Brien, and Camp Inc.’s Josh Pierce.

Also mentioned in the episode are organizations such as Congregation Bonai Shalom, Congregation B’nai Torah, Boulder JCC, Jewish National Fund, Longmont Shabbat Group, Chabad of  Northwest Denver, CU-Hillel and their fabulous shirts, and Or Zimrah, the Congregation Har HaShem band. With kudos to the food and entertainment and a closing song performed by Or Zimrah, it’s a fun episode!

Radio Chavurah’s staff photographer, Avital Rotbart, took photos during their visit – see those here.

To subscribe to the Program Guide, a weekly email including program highlights, visit Subscribechavura.com.  Many thanks to our friends at Radio Chavurah for their promotion and coverage of the event.

But as for me, I would vote for Rabbi Goldfeder’s three books. That is partly because I am Rabbi Goldfeder. But it is also because, with my just-released third book, I have now dealt with three of the topics that are most central to my thinking. The Omer Book – self-awareness as a basis for relationship with others; The Genesis of Togetherness – deepening the conversation within and about marriage; and now, my third book, Passionate Prayer, about cultivating intimate relationship with the Divine.

For people who pray regularly, there is always the danger of ennui. Regular prayer sounds, well, regular. Repetitive. Rote. And it certainly can be that way. But it can also be very intimate, emotive, evocative, complex, fresh, new, and real.

This book nudges us toward making that a reality. This is accomplished by seeing prayer for what it is: a relationship. And since it is a relationship, we can draw on universal wisdom about relationships and bring it to bear on prayer-relationship. And that’s what I do here – looking at the best thinking on marriage and developmental theory as a way to infuse prayer with relationship-awareness. And then I offer very practical guidance for how to turn regular prayer into an Intimate Encounter with the Divine.

If you’re someone who already practices, or is open to practicing, regular prayer, I hope you’ll give my book a try. And if you’re someone who is curious about the underlying principles that make prayer real, this book has something for you, too. And if you are someone who is curious about how ancient Torah sources interact with modern science and psychology, you won’t be disappointed, either.

You can order my new book, and others, here.

Boulder Jewish News encourages Bar and Bat Mitzvah students to submit their d’var torah and information about their Mitzvah/Tikkun Olam projects.  For more information, please email editor@boulderjewishnews.org.

Boulder Jewish News encourages Bar and Bat Mitzvah students to submit their d’var torah and information about their Mitzvah/Tikkun Olam projects.  For more information, please email editor@boulderjewishnews.org.

Boulder Jewish News encourages Bar and Bat Mitzvah students to submit their d’var torah and information about their Mitzvah/Tikkun Olam projects. For more information, please email editor@boulderjewishnews.org.