For the first time since its inception in 2004, the Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS), a faculty fellowship program that gives professors from around the world the foundation to teach about Israel, will host five participants from institutions in the Abraham Accord countries of Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Read More »Column: With Bibi’s Bungling, Who Needs Antisemites?
As Jerry Seinfeld would put it, “And you want be prime minister again.” While Seinfeld once caught George Costanza sprawled on the floor in his underwear after stumbling in Seinfeld’s living room, last week Benjamin Netanyahu stumbled – a generous description – by comparing accusations against his family to a “blood libel.”
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 »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 »Israeli Dance Workshop June 18-19
The Boulder Israeli Dance Group is thrilled to bring Argentine master dance teacher Marcel Marianoff to lead a dance workshop June 18-19 at the Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder.
Read More »Column: Israeli Police vs. Circular Logic
On the first day of Passover, I left a store and entered my car only to look up and spot two bizarre signs on the wall – one warning of death in “hell-fire” for anyone who kills a son of Islam and the second crediting Muslims for building the Pyramids in Egypt.
Read More »Jewish Philanthropists Catch the Spirit in Uplifting Mission to Israel
After seven magical days in Israel, 12 Jewish National Fund-USA partners (donors), mostly from the Colorado area, returned home from the organization’s Catch the Spirit Mission — one of the first missions to return to Israel since the start of the pandemic.
Read More »Column: Terror Spree in Israel May Even Extend To New Jersey
Terror attacks in Israel are so alarming that the first fatal assault could well have inspired a copycat crime 5,400 miles west – in Lakewood, N.J.
Read More »Letter: Finally, Israel Understands PR
For years Zionists have lamented Israel's apparent failure to recognize that it has been losing a PR battle led by antisemitic professors at American universities and antisemitic members of the mainstream media. Well, apparently Israel finally got it.
Read More »Boulder JCC Hosts an All Ages Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration of Israeli Music
On May 5, join us at the Boulder JCC for a community celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day.
Read More »Local Leaders Tackle Social Issues in Israel
This week, Denver’s Hirsch Neustein, Marisa Porter, and Whitney Wolz are representing JEWISHcolorado alongside 100 Jewish leaders and philanthropists for the first major North American young leadership mission to Israel since the pandemic, dubbed “New Mission for a New Generation.”
Read More »Column: No Safe Haven From Amnesty International
Amnesty International America’s Paul O’Brien asserts a Catch-22 form of logic to undermine Israeli Jews if the Jewish state ceases to function as a Jewish state.
Read More »Letter: Israel Apartheid: Not
With all of the horrendous human rights violations across the globe, three "human rights" organizations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B'Tselmen are rarely heard from except when they fill the airwaves with the allegation that Israel is an apartheid state.
Read More »Jewish National Fund-USA Showcases the Real Israel, Rejects Amnesty’s Delegitimization Campaign
Jewish National Fund-USA encourages everyone to show the world the real Israel as the organization calls out Amnesty International for its relentless campaign of delegitimization and hate against the Jewish homeland.
Read More »“The New Jew:” Watch the Docuseries and Join the Conversation
Ever wonder how Israelis perceive American Jews? "The New Jew" is a four-episode TV documentary series that showcases the cultural and political influence of the American Jewish community, alternative models for living a rich Jewish life, and the rifts in relations between Jewish Americans and Israel.
Read More »Birthright Israel & Onward Israel Merge, Strengthening Jewish Diaspora Ties with Israel
Birthright Israel, the largest educational tourism organization in the world, and Onward Israel, the leading provider of mid-length immersive experiences for young adults in Israel, have merged.
Read More »Column: Hamas To Be, or Not To Be
A few Hamas leaders fully expect Israel’s downfall, yet Israel may not want to dislodge Hamas from its perch in Gaza. That is due to the equally firm expectation Hamas will be replaced by something worse.
Read More »Column: From Jerusalem to Harlem: What intersectionality?
The black community will protest police and vigilante-like killings of African-Americans; the ongoing violence within black neighborhoods; criminal trials that resemble kangaroo courts; and over such issues as voter suppression, schools and housing. Rioting over metal-detectors, though, has not emerged in the Black community’s struggle for social justice.
Read More »10th Jerusalem Winner Marathon: Running Through 3,000 Years of History
After being postponed due to the Corona pandemic, the marathon will take place on October 29th and will constitute the biggest sporting event in Israel after lifting some of the restrictions.
Read More »Column: An Act of War…Against American Jews
The so-called “progressives” in Congress led Democrats to commit an act of war against the Jewish people on Tuesday, when the House leadership slashed $1 billion incorporated into the spending legislation for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system in an emergency spending package.
Read More »Column: Can Biden’s ‘Highly Unlikely’ Happen in Israel?
In the Famous-Last-Words department: “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
Read More »Four Israeli Students Set to Land in Colorado
JEWISHcolorado is set to welcome four young Israelis on August 13 -- recent high school graduates who have an opportunity to delay mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces and serve Diaspora communities around the world.
Read More »Letter: Ben & Jerry’s: The Judaism of Gertrude Stein
Notwithstanding what the anti-Semitic woke world says, Article 80 of the United Nations Charter, an international treaty, declares all of Israel including Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem to be the reconstituted homeland of the Jewish people and the therefore sovereign Jewish territory.
Read More »Ironman Announces Newest Ironman 70.3 Triathlon In Tiberias, Israel
IRONMAN announced today that it will add a brand-new event to its 2021 race calendar with the IRONMAN® 70.3® Tiberias triathlon.
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