Shabbat shalom!  This weekend is the annual Boulder Jewish Festival on Sunday, June 3rd on the Pearl St. Mall. Don’t miss it!

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Enjoy this week’s posts:

News

• Har HaShem Among 12 Selected Congregations for Scientists in Synagogues 2018 ‍‍(5/31/2018) - 17 Sivan 5778 - Sinai and Synapses, fiscally sponsored and housed at Clal – The National Center for Learning and Leadership, has selected Boulder's Congregation Har HaShem as one of the 12 synagogues for its initiative “Scientists in Synagogues.”
• UN’s Development Goals Are A Roadmap For Powerful Donor Impact ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and established a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Let’s put these new goals into a good news/bad news context.

Jewish Life

• OneTable Releases the “OneTable Shabbat Dinner Guide” ‍‍(5/31/2018) - 17 Sivan 5778 - OneTable has created a Shabbat Dinner Guide for their thousands of monthly users and beyond. Check it out.
• The Longing – Parshat Beha’alotcha ‍‍(5/31/2018) - 17 Sivan 5778 - For the next five weeks, we will be touring through some of the darkest chapters in the Israelites’ long desert journey. And one theme will dominate these parshot above all: dissatisfaction.
• Jaden Ortiz Bar Mitzvah ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - On Friday, June 1st, 2018, Jaden Ortiz will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah with the Adventure Rabbi.
• Jasper Hans Bar Mitzvah ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - On Saturday, June 2nd 2018, Jasper Hans will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah with the Adventure Rabbi.
• Samantha Kowitt Bat Mitzvah ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - On Saturday, June 2nd 2018, Samantha Kowitt will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah with the Adventure Rabbi.
• Adin King Bar Mitzvah ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - On Saturday, June 2nd 2018, Adin King will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah with the Adventure Rabbi.
• Baruch Dayan Ha’emet: Herbert Erwin Horwitz, z”l ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - Herbert Erwin Horwitz, beloved father of Rhonda Horwitz-Romano, died peacefully on Shabbat afternoon, May 26, 2018.
• Max Caplan Bar Mitzvah ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - On Saturday, June 2nd, 2018, Max Caplan will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Bonai Shalom.
• Talia Zicklin and Gabriel Weksler B’nai Mitzvah ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - On Saturday, June 2nd, 2018, Talia Zicklin and Gabriel Weksler will be called to the Torah as B'nai Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

Arts and Culture

• Marilyn Pinsker Finds Lost Family – And Finds Herself in a Film ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - Australian director Su Goldfish appears in person with two free screenings of "The Last Goldfish" at the Boulder JCC on Sunday June 10 at 4 and 7 pm.
• Old Synagogue Barcelona ‍‍(5/30/2018) - 16 Sivan 5778 - Barcelona has one of the oldest synagogues in Europe.  It was recently rediscovered in 1987, and in the late 1990s restoration work began. 
• Colorful Life Leads to Wild Novel for First-Time Boulder Author Don Koplen ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - Don Koplen really did grow up in the racist South he depicts with a vivid imagination layered over the time, place and people he knew so well in his debut novel, "Jewboy of the South."
• Dead Sea Scrolls Leader to Speak in Denver ‍‍(5/28/2018) - 14 Sivan 5778 - Pnina Shor of the Israel Antiquities Authority will speak at BMH/BJ in Denver on June 4 about the Dead Sea Scrolls, 70 Years Later.