You thought March Madness was just about basketball? Check out this alternative bracket competition!
Read More »Baking A Difference
Challah for Hunger is now operating on the CU campus!
Read More »Teen Funders Seek Proposals for $60,000 in Awards
Learn about Rose Youth Foundation's three funding priorities for this year's grant opportunity.
Read More »Habitat for Humanity Program Thursday
A reminder that the Habitat for Humanity program at Congregation Har HaShem is this week.
Read More »“This Is Israel”: Reflections from Our Pillar of Defense Trip
"The next morning we had another siren, and I got to see firsthand, since I was in the breakfast buffet at the Leonardo Negev Hotel, how Israelis handle an alert..."
Read More »Habitat for Humanity Coming to Har HaShem
Har HaShem is hosting Habitat for Humanity for an important informational and educational program about homelessness and poverty in Boulder County.
Read More »Give 10% of Holiday Spending to Charities: Make a World of Difference
Americans will spend an average of $750 per person on gifts for family, friends and colleagues in this upcoming holiday season, an increase of 4 percent over 2011. Do the math.
Read More »Habitat for Humanity Info Program
Har HaShem hosts a Habitat for Humanity program in December.
Read More »Roots & Branches Seeks Grant Proposals
Roots & Branches Foundation seeks proposals for two funding areas this year. Full details.
Read More »Halloween Turned on its Head
Rabbi Goldfeder's updated point of view about Halloween.
Read More »Boulder Homelessness Panel is Wednesday
CORRECTION: This panel is Wednesday night (tonight). BJN regrets the error.
Read More »Wednesday Panel to Address Homelessness in Boulder
The panel will address the role of Boulder’s faith communities with regard to homelessness...what we can do individually and as part of our Jewish community to help?
Read More »Women Changing the Face of Philanthropy
With more money and increased control and influence over how it is spent, more women than ever are making philanthropic investments to help address and solve the problems of our time.
Read More »Ten Steps to More Effective Philanthropy
Being an effective philanthropist doesn't depend on the amount of time or money you give but rather upon how you approach your giving.
Read More »Roots & Branches Seeks Jewish Grantmaking Team
Eighteen people will be selected - will any be from the Boulder area?
Read More »Food, Faith, Hunger, Polis, O’Brien, Soloway and You
Congressman Polis will be at Bonai Shalom this Friday to continue the conversation about faith communities and hunger. Tickets still available for dessert and the talk.
Read More »Blanket Drive this Weekend
After the Health Fair on Sunday, donate a blanket next door.
Read More »Teen Funders Seeking Grant Proposals
For the 11th year, Rose Youth Foundation will grant a total of $60,000 to organizations serving Greater Denver and Boulder.
Read More »Making the Meat We Eat Healthy AND Holy
What might it mean to connect cosmic moments to ordinary life, in which routine actions express spiritual reality? Find out Sunday.
Read More »Tikkun Olam: From Babylonia to Boulder
Rabbi Goldman devotes his first BJN post to discussing classical vs. contemporary examples of Tikkun Olam, and explores how the one underpins the other.
Read More »A Rabbi and a Monkey Walk Into a Bar…
When we confuse co-existence with sameness, then trouble starts to brew.
Read More »Parsha Musings by Moshe Scheiner
The vast majority of Americans make charitable contributions because it feels good. All it takes is one act of goodness in any situation that can have the greatest impact.
Read More »Light Up Literacy Brings the Joy of Reading to Guatemala
Light Up Literacy is a program that teaches children the joy of g'milut chasadim (acts of loving kindness) and brings tikkun olam (social action and the pursuit of social justice) to Hanukkah.
Read More »Overcoming Our “Bystander” Moments By Giving
We are bystanders when, living our busy lives, we witness our society's problems and fail to act to our full potential.
Read More »Donating Locks for Love
When Randi Velick chopped off her long locks of hair, she kept her goal in mind: help those with cancer.
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