Weekly Edition: June 4th, 2021

Shabbat Shalom! We want to introduce you to a new, local small business: Shabbat Candle Club (www.shabbatcandleclub.com):

“Shabbat Candle Club provides subscription boxes, as well as a starter kit and dinner kit, of exquisite, hand-dipped, beautifully packaged Shabbat candles. Our business began in the last year as we sat at home on Friday nights (and all nights actually), missing the everyday joy and community before the pandemic. We wanted to find a way to bring a feeling of peace, calm, and reflection to people when so many of us were feeling isolated and alone. With the desire to stay focused on something positive, we formed Shabbat Candle Club to send strength, healing, beauty, celebration, connection, and light into our community and the world. Our goal is to help friends and families enlighten their Shabbat evenings, whether together or apart, with the addition of some extra beauty and light. To find out more about us and our offerings (as well as a special discount), please check out our website: www.shabbatcandleclub.com.”

B’shalom, Karli & Aaron Atwell and Mara & Kyle Kuczun Co-owners of Shabbat Candle Club

Here are sources that will have the most up-to-date information about COVID-19 in Boulder and Colorado:

• Boulder JCC for the Jewish community
• Congregation Har HaShem for the Jewish community
• City of Boulder
• Boulder County
• Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
• Centers for Disease Control

Stay safe, stay healthy!

News/Columns

• Biden Could Force Stark Choices For Hamas (6/3/2021) - President Biden set the stage for doing to Hamas what he may never achieve with the Republicans in Congress: by firmly casting Hamas as the bad guy. Continue Reading
• Letter: Israel Needs No Lectures From Abroad (6/3/2021) - Ed Kass's 'A Conversation we do not have, but need to' (Column: Saving Israel from Herself, May 27, 2021) betrayed a shockingly low understanding of the constant existential threats Israel faces. Continue Reading
• Letter: Fact-Checking Kass Column (6/2/2021) - If you want to produce a column urging Jews in Israel to be more humane to the Arabs, it would help if you get someone who respects the facts. Continue Reading
• Letter: A Conversation Ed Kass Hasn’t Had But Needs To (6/2/2021) - There are a few grains of truth in Ed Kass' commentary "A conversation we do not have but need to" which belie his entire misguided argument. Continue Reading
• London Calling: Message for Community From Rabbi Marc (5/30/2021) - Every Friday morning, my mother gets her weekly copy of The Jewish Chronicle, delivered along with The Times and I have been reading it with considerable alarm. Almost every story is one that relates to the sharp and shocking increase in incidents of anti-Semitism since the awful escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. Continue Reading
• Letter: Remember Senator Moynihan’s Words (5/30/2021) - Ed Kass is entitled to his opinion, but as the late New York United States Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said -- he is not entitled to his facts. Continue Reading

Jewish Life

• Kabbalah Experience Welcomes Students Back in Person for Summer Semester (6/3/2021) - After more than a year of holding classes virtually amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kabbalah Experience is welcoming students back to in-person learning for Summer Semester classes. Continue Reading
• Four Questions for Rachel Goldbaum – Sacred and Sensual (6/3/2021) - Boulder Center for Judaism is proud to announce a virtual class on the topic of the “Sacred and  Sensual” given by Rochel Goldbaum of Denver, CO on Thursday, June 10. This is the second in a series of three classes on “Nurturing the Knot.” Continue Reading
• Shabbat: TGIF (6/3/2021) - I am who I am thanks to Shabbat. Due to this biblically mandated institution, I have peace of mind, a flourishing community, a great relationship with my family and a career where I traverse the country singing its praise. Continue Reading
• Judaism Your Way Opens Registration for Open Tent Be Mitzvah Program (5/30/2021) - Judaism Your Way opened registration on May 25th for the 13th year of its Open Tent Be Mitzvah program, an innovative two-year coming-of-age experience for students entering grades 6 through 8. Continue Reading
• Louisa Carbone Bat Mitzvah (5/30/2021) - On Saturday, June 5th, 2021, Louisa Carbone will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah with Adventure Judaism. Continue Reading
• Zoe Rhodes-Wolin Bat Mitzvah (5/30/2021) - On Saturday, June 5th, 2021, Zoe Rhodes-Wolin will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah with Adventure Judaism. Continue Reading
• Ari Tilzer and Ruby Stein B’nai Mitzvah (5/30/2021) - On Saturday, June 5th, 2021, Ari Tilzer and Ruby Stein will be called to the Torah as B'nai Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem. Continue Reading

Arts and Culture

• June Programs from Colorado Hebrew Chorale (6/2/2021) - The Colorado Hebrew Chorale will be hosting two virtual programs in June 2021, one on June 6th and the other on June 21st. Continue Reading

Events

• Join SafeHouse Denver and Support Survivors of Domestic Violence: Virtual Sampling for Hope! (6/2/2021) - SafeHouse Denver is proud to announce the return of Sampling for Hope after it was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. Even though it will be virtual this year, food and supporting survivors remain at the heart of the event.   Join us on Thursday, June 10 at 5:30 pm for our Livestream! Our longtime friends and supporters,… Continue Reading
• First Friday on Thursday with Professor Merav Ben David (5/30/2021) - In late fall of 2009, I was sitting for an interview with National Geographic on the bow of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. I was the chief scientist on an expedition to study polar bears. According to NASA’s predictions, we were supposed to be breaking solid ice. Instead, we were motoring at… Continue Reading