Silly sideshows dominate much of the news on Israel and other Jewish and general issues. So much so that keeping up with them amounts to “posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes,” to quote Tevye as he croons “If I were a rich man” in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Read More »No Place on Earth: An Incredible Story of Strength and Survival
World caver and explorer, Chris Nicola, shares the incredible story of how five Jewish families survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in a cave for nearly a year and a half - the longest uninterrupted, underground survival experience on record.
Read More »Photography Legacy Project of Survivors Comes to Boulder
Denver couple John and Amy Israel Pregulman have made it their mission to photograph as many Holocaust survivors as possible, before it’s too late. They will be in Boulder on February 20th.
Read More »Holocaust Exhibit at BJCC Draws Over 2,000 Visitors
The Holocaust by Bullets exhibit focuses on the mass shootings of Jews throughout Eastern Europe by the Nazi mobile killing units from 1941 to 1944.
Read More »Buddhist Jew’s Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust
Early on in Ellen Korman Mains’s compelling account of her spiritual journey as the child of survivors to make sense of the Holocaust, she observes the irony that one schooled by Buddhism to live in the present could make it her life’s work to grapple with demons of the past. Author talk at Boulder Book Store in January.
Read More »November First Friday at Bonai Shalom: Geneology and Holocaust Survivors
Join Congregation Bonai Shalom on November 2, 2018 for First Friday, A Holocaust Journey: The Search for Family
Read More »Meet My Rabbi, Bring Your Dog – Thursday at Bonai Shalom
Rabbi Jonathan Wittneberg will be in Boulder from London this week and will be talking about two of his amazing books on Thursday at Bonai Shalom.
Read More »Author, Dog Lover, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Comes to Bonai Shalom
On April 26, Rabbi Marc Soloway's personal Rabbi, Jonathan Wittenberg will come to Bonai Shalom to speak about two books he has written, "Things My Dog Has Taught Me About Being A Better Human" and "My Dear Ones, One Family, and the Final Solution".
Read More »New Children’s Book Explains the Holocaust Through a Child’s Eyes
"Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope" allows children to view life through Renee's eyes-a child living through the Holocaust who remained hopeful of a brighter future.
Read More »#Jewish Lives Matter
My grandson was born in 2017, during quite extraordinary times --- and 100 years after his late great grandfather, about whom this book was written. The question arises… How can we prepare my grandson’s generation to deal with their century from how Harry Greissman and his “Greatest Generation” lived through their extraordinary century?
Read More »Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg doctors’ trial where 20 Nazi physicians were brought to account for heinous crimes against humanity.
Read More »Opinion: Worse than Kapos?
Rabbi Marc Soloway considers what it means today to be called "worse than kapos" for holding -- and expressing -- fairly mainstream opinions in the public market of ideas.
Read More »History Still Refuses to Judge Holocaust Rescuer Rudolph Kasztner
Visiting Haifa University Professor Zach Levey returns to the Boulder JCC to discuss the infamous trial of a man who rescued 1,684 Hungarian Jews.
Read More »The Magic Continues… Along with Morocco and More
Check out some of the upcoming Menorah programs around Magic, Morocco and Art and the Holocaust. (But not all of those at the same time.)
Read More »Menorah Honors Unsung Hero Raphael Lemkin with Two Programs
"Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of a single individual?"
Read More »Arvada Center Hosts “Mitzvah Project” on October 29
On October 29th, the Arvada Center will be hosting "The Mitzvah Project" – a one man play by Roger Grunwald that explores the story of the 150,000 partly Jewish men who served in Hitler’s armed forces during World War II.
Read More »Talk: Story of Survival, “My Father’s Escape From the Holocaust”
My father's escape from the Holocaust through Vilna, Vladivostok, Japan and Shanghai. Wednesday night only!
Read More »Haver Presents 2015 Yom HaShoah Program
This year's community Yom HaShoah program is Wednesday night at Congregation Bonai Shalom.
Read More »When Allied Troops Came Face to Face With the Holocaust
Professor Paul Shankman participates in Menorah's Scholars Series on Tuesday with a talk, The Gates of Hell: The American Liberation of the Nazi Camps.
Read More »Save The Date: 2015 Yom HaShoah Program
This year's community Yom HaShoah program will be on April 15th at Congregation Bonai Shalom. Find out more.
Read More »Initial 10 Quiat Delegates Attend ADL Youth Mission in DC
A diverse group of ten students from Colorado was selected to be Gerald M. Quiat Delegates to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Grosfeld Family National Youth Leadership Mission.
Read More »“Walking with the Enemy” Powerful Holocaust Film
Barbara Steinmetz offers a review of a powerful new Holocaust-themed movie, based on a true story about the Jews of Hungary during WWII.
Read More »The Holocaust: A Collective Memory
In May, Bonai Shalom's First Friday program features Professor Janet Jacobs.
Read More »Solemn songs: Kristallnacht Observed at Bonai Concert
The community is invited to a memorial concert this weekend performed by the Colorado Hebrew Chorale.
Read More »German Holocaust Resistance Group Remembered 70 Years Later
In February, July, and October 1943, the Nazis executed the six members of the White Rose non-Jewish resistance group, which distributed leaflets opposing Hitler.
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