Weekly Edition: May 21st, 2021

Shabbat shalom! Our thoughts and prayers this week are again with our brothers and sisters in Israel. May G-d grant that the cease fire holds and peace comes to the region again.

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

• Column: Gun Violence: A Visitor From Jerusalem Unsafe In Israel Or America (5/20/2021) - raelis Efraim Gordon and Yehuda Guetta learned too late that they were not safe whether waiting for a bus in the West Bank or visiting relatives in Baltimore. Continue Reading
• PM of Ukraine Honors Ukrainians Who Saved Jews During Holocaust at New Babyn Yar Synagogue (5/18/2021) - At a ceremony hosted by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal, the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andrii Yermak and Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko honored Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust and announced that those still alive will receive a lifelong monthly… Continue Reading
• The Case for Corporate Social Purpose and Community Investment (5/18/2021) - The need for businesses to focus on corporate social responsibility has never been more urgent, and the case for doing so has never been stronger. Continue Reading

Arts and Culture

• Monday: “Better Widowed than Married”: Conversa Women in Early Modern Europe – Peak to Peak Webinar (5/20/2021) - The mass forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews before 1492 reshaped Jewish family life in the early modern period. In this webinar on May 24, , Professor Rebecca Wartell will explore this transformation, mining discussions of marriage and marital status in legal and popular Jewish literature to recover the neglected experiences and voices of… Continue Reading
• Another Man Down (5/20/2021) - A new poem from Lisa Tremback Continue Reading
• Hadassah Presents Virtual Tour of National Portrait Gallery (5/18/2021) - Join Boulder Hadassah on Sunday May 23rd for a private docent-led virtual one hour tour, via Zoom, of the National Portrait Gallery, featuring people of the Jewish faith who helped shape our history and culture. Continue Reading

Events

• Registration Deadline for Hadassah Virtual Mah Jongg Party Is May 23rd (5/20/2021) - Boulder Chapter of Hadassah invites all Mah Jongg lovers to Boulder Hadassah’s Mah Jongg Party on Sunday, June 6, 2021. Registration deadline is Sunday. Continue Reading