A few weeks ago, I traveled with 13 other Jewish teens from BBYO to Ukraine on Ambassadors to Ukraine. After returning home from this life-changing experience in Ukraine, I see the work I must do in my local community.

Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS) raised nearly $375,000 at its fundraiser, "The Faces of JFS 2017 Winter Soirée," on December 14.

“Sustainability is a team sport,” says founder Chava Tzemach, “Individual actions are important, but community support and institutional changes are where the magic happens.”

MJAB (Muslim-Jewish Alliance of Boulder) is on track for a powerful, joint day of service on Christmas Day!

Jewish volunteers will provide relief to non-Jewish employees/volunteers at a range of local healthcare and non-profit facilities, enabling them to spend Christmas with their loved ones.

The lesson of Hanukkah that I am suggesting we consider for 2017 and beyond is to stop pointing our fingers at Agribusiness, Big Pharma, the Fossil Fuel Industry. I suggest that we can refocus our language and our behavior on our own agency and how it impacts our global interdependency.

Given the present day focus on gender abuse, the story portrayed here about Judith and the Maccabees seems to have particular contemporary relevance.

We are currently engaged in the largest wealth transfer in history. Over 50 years, between 2007 and 2061, an estimated $59 trillion will pass from older to younger generations. What does that mean for philanthopy?

Over 350 people came out in mild weather in front of the Boulder County Courthouse to light the Menorah for 2017 Chanukah.

There are still 136,000 Holocaust Survivors living in Israel that need your support.  Consider adopting a lonely Holocaust Survivor this year.

The Jewish Community Relations Council, a program of JEWISHcolorado, and JEWISHcolorado welcome President Trump’s decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and begin the process of relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.

JScreen was at the Hillel International Global Assembly in Denver, engaging with Hillel professionals in order to bring JScreen to their campuses for education and screening events. JScreen’s expanded screening panels now enable for testing of more than 200 diseases, a significant development from a generation ago.

Congregation Har HaShem has completed installation of 50 kW of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on its buildings. To mark the project’s completion, Har HaShem will hold a dedication event on Wednesday morning, December 13.

Honor your parents, follow your destiny, remember your ancestors, cherish honesty…prime Jewish values? Indeed, these are some of the main themes in the upcoming Joseph story throughout the final Torah portions of the book of Genesis.

The Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC Denver) announced it has hired Lara Knuettel as the organizations's permanent CEO.

CSU Hillel, a campus of Hillel of Colorado, has embraced sustainability through a variety of efforts and is currently the only Hillel House in the country that is certified sustainable by Hazon, the county’s preeminent Jewish sustainability organization.

The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (IISHJ) celebrated the graduation of three new Leaders and ordained two new rabbis this past Friday at The Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism.

Soon, many of us will gather around the Thanksgiving table with family and friends -- to indulge in an abundance of delicious traditional foods and give thanks for abundant blessings and freedoms.

The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region expressed concern that, for the second year in a row, the FBI’s annual hate crimes report documents an increase in hate crimes nationwide.