Tuesday night: Following the 2022 midterm elections, we convene public leaders from diverse backgrounds to discuss how we can have more constructive dialogue with people who may be dissimilar to us in an effort to advocate for unity over divisive rhetoric.

JCamp 180, a core program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), will support more than 100 nonprofit Jewish overnight camps over the next five years with the $25 million Forward Together matching grant.

JEWISHcolorado has announced the departure of Rabbi Jay Strear as President & CEO of the organization at the end of the month.

Over 2,500 Shabbat Project events – more than double than in 2021 – will take place this year on and around November 11-12, 2022 (Parshat Vayeira), in Jewish communities across the globe.

On Saturday, November 12th, 2022, Elliot Litwin will be called to the Torah as Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

The Boulder County Courthouse, Boulder Public Library, and Sunrise of Boulder, together with more than 800 other buildings and landmarks around the world, will be lighting up teal on November 3rd to raise Alzheimer’s awareness as part of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s (AFA) Light the World in Teal program. 

Like many grandchildren of survivors, Suzette Sheft, 16, grew up hearing the horrific stories of her grandmother’s life during the Holocaust—the Nazis kicking down her door, the anguished separation from her mother in Vienna, the years of fear and dislocation, staying one step ahead of capture and deportation to a concentration camp.

On Saturday, November 5th, 2022, Arlo Arenson-Pie will be called to the Torah as Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

Recently the Editorial Board of the Wellesley News of Wellesley College in an editorial very publicly declared their total support for Omar Barghouti's antisemitic genocidal BDS movement and the Boston Mapping Project which it unequivocally declared to be a "vital service" to the community.

On Wednesday, November 2nd, Sandy will kick off a National Brain Tumor Fundraiser at Avanti F&B on Pearl St. in downtown Boulder by holding a book signing of her new book from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. The fundraiser runs through the weekend and comes with three ways to donate.

Jewish influencer Montana Tucker, a TikTok sensation with 8.7 million followers, just launched a Holocaust Remembrance series called “How To: Never Forget.” Through the 10-part series on Tucker’s TikTok and Instagram, she retraces her grandparents’ steps through Poland during the Holocaust. Within 24 hours of launching the series, over one million viewers saw the premiere episode on both Instagram and Tiktok.

Kanye West boasted about being able to act without consequences. “I can literally say antisemitic s*** and they [Adidas] cannot drop me," West said on a social media video so it may come as a surprise to him that “Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”

Words of loving-kindness (Ahavas Chesed) will be the focus for Clean Speech Colorado starting November 1st.  Find out more, and sign up!

On Saturday, October 29th, 2022 Charlie Elchoness and Evan Mandelbaum will be called to the Torah as B'nai Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

On Saturday, October 29th, 2022 Elan Greenstreet will be called to the Torah as Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Nevei Kodesh.

OneTable, a national non-profit that empowers young adults (21-39ish) to find, share, and enjoy Shabbat dinners, today announced a partnership with A More Perfect Union, a group focused on organizing and mobilizing the American Jewish community to protect and strengthen American democracy.

"Jew Free Zones." This antisemitic phrase has been in the news recently because about a dozen student groups at UC Berkeley under the auspicious of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), have announced the total prohibition of all speakers who believe in Jewish self determination.

On Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 Olive Spohn and Benjamin Protas will be called to the Torah as B'nai Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

On Thursday, October 6th, 2022 (11 Tishrei 5783), Lazlo Adams was called to the Torah as B'nai Mitzvah at Congregation Har HaShem.

Effective October 1, Jewish Family Service of Colorado and Jewish Family Services of Greenwich, Connecticut have become part of the affiliate network after obtaining approval from the U.S. Department of State, bringing to 25 the number of metropolitan areas across the country where HIAS is helping refugees providing Reception and Placement services. 

Finally we got the whole story: Americans hate Jews and others.  The nation's mood has not changed, the past is the present, the present is the past. This according to Ken Burns.

Ken Burns' advance interviews for his new Holocaust film provided much material for public discussion. Now that PBS has broadcast the six-hour series, how does the film measure up?

Scientists have long been puzzled by the frequent disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. In his new Holocaust documentary, filmmaker Ken Burns has managed to make the entire Bermuda Conference on Refugees vanish. 

As the producer and director of a PBS film on America’s response to the Holocaust some years ago, I was at first delighted to learn that Ken Burns has now likewise made a film for broadcast on PBS about how our country responded to the Nazi genocide. But some advance publicity for the broadcast raises questions as to whether his film will accurately portray key issues such as U.S. refugee policy and the failure to bomb Auschwitz.

On Saturday, September 17th, 2022, Michael Yagodnick will be called to the Torah as a Bar Yisrael with Adventure Judaism.