Har HaShem’s Hanukkah Online Silent Auction runs through Saturday, December 1, 2018.

Since 2010, I have now written 100 columns addressing many aspects of philanthropy – for families, businesses and foundations. To acknowledge this milestone, here are some of my favorite excerpts.

Each year the Boulder County Center for Judaism selects a member of the Boulder Jewish community to receive the special honor of lighting the giant community menorah. This year’s Lamplighters are Josh and Bonni Raderman, who have been lighting things up Jewishly in Boulder for many years.

Events were held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beer Sheva providing Olim with a taste of Thanksgiving.

A new poem from Lisa Tremback.

Rather extraordinary, I say to myself. Two very different personalities, Father Desbois and Stan Lee, take center stage of history on the very same calendar day!

Linda P. Foster was selected as Jewish Family Service of Colorado’s (JFS) new president and CEO and will join the agency on November 28, 2018.

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

Terri Miro and Adam Sloat will co-chair the 25th Annual Boulder Jewish Festival, to be held on June 2, 2019.

After 22 years at Rose Community Foundation, Lisa Farber Miller, senior program officer for Jewish Life, today announced her plans to leave the Foundation effective February 1, 2019.

JEWISHcolorado is helping to organize this Shabbat as National Solidarity Shabbat, a time to convene in your local synagogue to mourn the victims in Pittsburgh as well as to demonstrate that our Jewish communities will not be intimidated.

Representatives of the member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and other local and national Jewish leaders gathered together to discuss the aftermath of the attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh, the state of anti-Semitism in the United States, and steps to enhance the protection of American Jewish communities and institutions.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (“SWC”) today released results from a September survey of nearly 2,000 registered voters regarding their perceptions of the current political climate and its impact on American society.

A timely piece of poetry about our world today.

CU Boulder Hillel and Chabad at University of Colorado will stand together in solidarity with the victims and survivors of the Tree of Life Congregation on the CU campus on Tuesday, October 30th.

Tonight there was a very powerful and moving vigil at JW3, London's JCC, for the victims of Pittsburgh. 

JEWISHcolorado and the JCRC released a joint statement on the Pittsburgh shooting.

Pittsburgh is obviously weighing heavily on our hearts today.

We invite you to join us as we gather tomorrow at Congregation Har HaShem at 4:30 pm for a unified and healing response to the shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Shabbat is supposed to be a “taste of the World to Come.” But this Shabbat was desecrated by a man filled with hate, carrying weapons of murder into a sacred space.