There is a lot of drama and emoting going on in Parshat Chukat.

Marilyn Pinsker has been making things with her hands — knitting, crocheting and doing needle work, for as long as she can remember.

A poem in celebration of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz written by by dear friend Julie Oscherwitz Grant.

The first time Elisa Greenberg volunteered to pick up inmates from the ICE detention center in Aurora, she knew it was an important thing to do. She didn’t realize how personally meaningful is was going to be as well. 

Imagine what’s in the minds of little children who are being told they need to stay at home from school, can't see their friends, can’t hug their grandparents, and that they have to wear masks, like all the adults around them, when they are outside around others.

Welcome to our new series about people in our community who are volunteering and making a difference in this difficult time.

"I wrote this back in 2004, while my mother, Cru, was still alive. At the time, I was 44 years old, and figuring out how to be a good mom to three young children..."

I have been struck by the fact that each time I pass someone on the street, my face covered in a mask, their face covered too, I say hello and smile. Because the masks can muffle sound, often times people don’t hear me say hello, and my smile is hidden, of course, behind the fabric of the mask. As a result, often these days people don’t acknowledge me as we pass each other— at least six feet apart — on the street.

This week’s Torah portion, Tazriah, is a reminder that births are happening while our focus may be on sickness.

Counting the Omer during the time of the Coronavirus gives us a unique opportunity to see ourselves more clearly, with much of our emotional armor stripped away and without our usual busyness to distract us.

When my husband Monte and I started to facilitate a weekly Jewish meditation sit at the Boulder JCC in the Fall, we knew from experience that there is power in meditating in a group setting. We had previously lived in New York City, and trained as Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher …

"There once was a wise old Peddler who lived in a settlement with his closest kin and surrounded by a community of other elders and their families..."

A Passover poem from Lori Dube

The notion that changing gears after a mistake could be a positive, even beautiful thing seemed like a revelation to me.

In this week’s Torah portion, Vaera, G-d instructs Moshe and Aharon to confront Pharoah and demand he allow the Israelites to go off and pray. It soon became a high-stakes challenge between G-d's power and Pharaoh's wise men and sorcerers.

Lori Dube interviews newly local artist Maya Rose Weiss about her handmade, wearable art.

If you are human, comparing mind is your constant companion. And, a natural result of these non-stop mental comparisons is that we often find ourselves feeling lacking, less than, craving to be, or to have, more.

In this season of Thanksgiving, I am reminded that the Jewish liturgy offers a technology to access morning gratitude. It’s the Modeh Ani prayer.

We are excited to have the opportunity to launch two new weekly sits, both of them happening on Tuesdays.

Was it masterful planning or Divine synchronicity that the Boulder JCC held its Shalom Boulder event — introducing new residents to the Boulder Jewish community — the week we read the Torah portion, Lech-Lecha?

Nothing goes better with Torah Study than bagels, lox, and cream cheese. So if it is a Saturday morning around 9 a.m at Congregation Har HaShem in Boulder, you can find both, and some 30 to 40 interested souls, who are there to chew on it all.