Rohr Chabad Center at CU took advantage of an early start to Chanukah this year to roll out eight nights full of light. Also, their 36-hour Match-a-Thon fundraiser starts Tuesday 12/18 at 11:00 am!

I’m in my car and on my way to Camp Hess Kramer off the Pacific Coast Highway in Southern California, one of two camps founded by my late Grandfather Rabbi Alfred Wolf for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Now in ashes, decimated by the Woolsey fire that ripped through Malibu, lies 180 acres and 67 years of steeped tradition, all ash.

A final Chanukah post, a poem, for 2018/5779.

This year, the Boulder County Center for Judaism has selected former concierge and marketing director for the Boulder Jewish Community Center, Michael Rosensweig, as the Lafayette Lamplighter to kindle the Giant Menorah on the last night of Chanukah.

The story of Chanukah begins in the year 167 BCE, when a Greek Macedonian kingdom centered in what is today Syria had tried to outlaw the Jewish religion in Israel and replace it with Hellenistic culture.

‘Don’t let the lights….see your wallet.’ In the prayer recited after lighting, there is a phrase: ‘these candles are holy and we have no permission to use them.’

In a tradition that gains traction and attendees each year, the Boulder County Center for Judaism is bringing the largest menorah in Boulder County to Lafayette again this year.

This year, Governor-Elect Jared Polis will be in attendance at the Chanukah on Pearl celebration Monday night.

Join us at Boulder Center for Judaism on Friday night of Chanukah, December 7 and enjoy a delicious Shabbos dinner with the traditional Chanukah trimmings.

Rabbi Marc Soloway will be part of this reading at the Curious Theatre on Sunday night, December 9th.

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

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.

The Colorado Hebrew Chorale will perform three Chanukah concerts in Denver this season.

Every year, hundreds of people brave the always-variable weather to stand together on the Pearl Street Mall and watch the lighting of Boulder County’s Biggest Menorah.

Boulder Jewish Teen Initiative at the JCC is celebrating Chanukah with a challenge this year: take on our mystery baskets and see if you have what it takes to be a maven in the kitchen!

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.