After losing two years to pandemic safety, the Boulder Jewish Festival re-emerged on Sunday, June 12 to much relief and acclaim.
Read More »Rabbinic Changes at Judaism Your Way
Judaism Your Way announced that Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary will be leaving Judaism Your Way at the end of June.
Read More »Column: Critics Of Orthodox Jewish Bastions Enter Murky Territory
Michelle Zangari opened a can devoid of any live worms when she warned that Orthodox Jews could be poised to seize control of Rockville Centre on Long Island, which was part of an eight-minute rant that drew condemnations against antisemitism from New York’s governor, senior senator and scores of others.
Read More »Organizations Applaud Signing of Nonprofit Security Legislation
JEWISHcolorado, its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and more than 100 coalition partners applaud the signing today of HB22-1077 by Colorado Governor Jared Polis, creating a state nonprofit security grant program for qualified nonprofit organizations at high risk of a terrorist attack.
Read More »Judaism Your Way Opens 2022 Registration for Open Tent Be Mitzvah Program
The two-year program guides students through the pivotal coming-of-age experience, offering a customizable approach that prioritizes their personal connection to the Jewish faith.
Read More »Israeli Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai Attends Jerusalem Pride Parade
"Today, we take to the streets to celebrate inclusivity, tolerance, and diversity. Today we celebrate that every gay man and every gay woman has a place here in Israel."
Read More »Letter: Purely a Self-Inflicted “Nakba”
Bruce Ticker accurately describes the fallacious ahistorical jew hatred integral to the " Recognizing the Nakba" , Resolution 1123, introduced by Rashida Tlaib, Omar, Betty McCollum, Marie Newman, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamal Bowman. ("Column: American Nakba")
Read More »Celebrate Pride Month with Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver
The Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC Denver) is celebrating Pride in June with a variety of events that are open to all.
Read More »Bonai Shalom’s Working Groups Statement on Recent Events
We are not powerless against this crisis, and we are obligated to take action to honor those who have lost their lives in this senseless, and in so many cases, preventable bloodshed. There are a number of actions that members of our community can take.
Read More »Column: American Nakba
A new play to top the absurdity of “Springtime for Hitler”: “Rashida Resurrects the Nakba Legacy.”
Read More »Letter: BDS = Shoot The Jew
By 2005 Omar Barghouti, a founder of BDS ("Boycott, Divest, Sanction"), had acknowledged that the sole purpose of BDS was the euthanasia of Israel.
Read More »Shoes Can Be a Method Of Escape, And a Tool For Taking Action
I recently gave a lecture to students at Colorado University about my childhood experiences as a refugee survivor from the days of the Holocaust. Aside from relating my story, I had a message to deliver: “Vote. Talk to your friends, parents, neighbors and anyone who will listen. Your country is at stake!”
Read More »Chariots of Fire
Many of you know that the allusion of the title, Chariots of Fire, relate to Eliyahu HaNavi, Elijah the prophet, ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire, as he was leaving this world. So why the connection to this film?
Read More »Column: Arab Leaders So Sure – Yet So Secretive – About Cause of Al Jazeera Reporter’s Death
Amid the varied dissections of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, the Palestinian Authority was consistent. To paraphrase Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, they did not miss an opportunity to miss the opportunity to sound credible.
Read More »Of Tzedek and Hate Crimes: Boulder Haver Stands with NY & CA
We stand together in support and mourning of two deadly mass shootings that occurred over the weekend and are being investigated as hate crimes: one at a Buffalo, NY supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, the other at Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, CA.
Read More »JEWISHcolorado, JCRC, ADL Condemn Horrific Attack
JEWISHcolorado, the ADL Mountain States Region, and the Jewish Community Relations Council stand with the community of Buffalo, New York where ten people have been murdered and three others injured at a grocery store in what authorities are calling an act of "racially motivated violent extremism."
Read More »Letter: Settler Colonial = Kike = Sheeny. No Difference
hears the term "settler colonial" spewed as an obscene epithet throughout the American Academia today to disparage the Jewish people of Israel and Zionism positing the fallacious claim that Zionism is an entirely 19th century European invention when in fact Zionism is the singular foundational narrative of the 4000-year-old Jewish Bible.
Read More »Column: The Path Back to Cultural Suppression
Perhaps the Taliban decided it would be timely to out-do our Supreme Court. It decreed on Saturday that the women of Afghanistan must cover their entire bodies, at least with a garment known as a hijab. A burqa would be better, but it is not required.
Read More »Letter: Another Garden Poem
Here is another poem about the Garden of Eden.
Read More »“The Farm Where It Happened?” Drip Irrigation & A Summer of Israeli Environmental Adventure
When we were on a month long family visit to Israel in 1986, on a Denver Federation sponsored trip, Kesher, we saw with our own eyes the very leaky pipe where the inspiration for Drip Irrigation was born.
Read More »New Israeli Neighborhood Named After CO Resident, Holocaust Survivor Max Furer z”l
“My dad was a builder,” explained his daughter, Dr. Karen Jonscher, in reference to why they chose to dedicate his bequest to Jewish National Fund-USA’s Housing Development Fund. “He loved building and he loved Israel. It was something I thought he would approve of.”
Read More »Letter: US and Israel: The $3 Billion Bargain
The bottom line ... is that the $3 billion plus that Israel receives from the US each year is a very good bargain for the American taxpayer.
Read More »Boulder Celebrates Israel 74 Together
Hundreds of community members turned up in person to celebrate Israel's 74th birthday outdoors on a beautiful afternoon, Thursday May 5, 2022.
Read More »BDS Propaganda at Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.”
Read More »Letter: ADL: Better Late Than Never
For many years thoughtful Jews have railed against ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for almost exclusively focusing on the dangers of right-wing antisemitism -- which certainly Jews should be made aware of -- to the exclusion of the dangers of left-wing antisemitism.
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