On Oct. 29, at 10:55 a.m., to be exact, the perpetrator of the June 1, 2025 terrorist attack — a firebombing — against a group of Boulder Run For Their Lives walkers, plead guilty to all 12 federal charges leveled against him. Mohamad Sabry Soliman has already been convicted of state charges and is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, plus 2,128 years in prison.
Current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is running for Colorado governor in the Nov. 3 election. He faces Republican Victor Marx and a number of independent candidates. The IJN recently spoke with Weiser about his vision for the state.
IJN Columnist Chaim Goldberg speaks with KNUS’ The Jeff & Bill Show the day after the Israel elections. Plus his comments on the race for Colorado’s Congressional District 1.
As Melat Kiros, Democratic candidate for Colorado’s Congressional District 1, continues to insist the deadly June 1, 2025 firebombing in Boulder was not anti-Semitic, the JCRC and firebombing victims respond.
The bitter battle rages between Israel’s security and political establishments over who bears responsibility for the failures ahead of the Oct. 7 attacks. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar filed a defamation lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who blamed the intelligence head for the failures leading up to the attack.
Israel Police arrested 10 people on Monday, Oct. 19, on suspicion of involvement in violent acts over the weekend against journalists, foreign diplomats and Palestinians in the West Bank during the annual olive harvest.
In Colorado’s Congressional District 8, Republican incumbent Gabe Evans is facing a challenge from Democratic State Sen. Manny Rutinel. The ethnically and socio-economically diverse district is a toss up.
A Yemeni-American Muslim, Mohammed Al Samawi, took center stage Monday night in Downtown Denver to address the topic, “How do we move beyond hate?” The setting was the inaugural “Together at the Crossroads: A Congress for Allyship & Unity,” organized by the Denver-based David Merage Foundation for Confronting Antisemitism.
Ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the IJN invited Democrat Phil Weiser and Republican Victor Marx to respond to questions. As of press time, Marx responded.
African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who headed a UN commission that accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, Oct. 9.
October 7, 2026 — the third yahrzeit of 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, men, women, children and babies, murdered by Hamas terrorists. Yosef Chaim Ohana, who was taken hostage from the Nova music festival, and his best friend Daniel Sharabi, who survived the attack, were in Greenwood Village, Colorado, talking about that fateful day.
This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story is Evan Gershkovich’s memoir of his arrest, 16 months behind bars and release from a Russian prison.
A report released by Israel’s largest health organization found that the most pronounced impact of the health costs of war over the past three years was on mental health.
Major security lapses in three countries preceded the near, deliberate crash of Fly Dubai flight #1073, Sept. 30: Oman, Dubai (UAE) and Israel.
At a Colorado interfaith observance at Resurrection Anglican Fellowship in Greenwood Village in advance of the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, the chanting of “Hatikva” was in full force.
Ahead of Boulder’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the IJN sent a questionnaire to mayoral and City Council candidates. Six people are running for mayor. Three responded: Aaron Brockett (incumbent), Jamo Goldstein and Aquiles La Grave. Overall, candidates’ responses reflect an awareness about how serious the issue of anti-Semitism in Boulder is.
Ahead of Boulder’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the IJN sent a questionnaire to mayoral and City Council candidates. City Council candidates Benita Duran, Sam Fuqua, Jill Grano, Rachel Rose Isaacson, Ryan Jamieson, Tina Marquis, David Martus, Scott Rendleman, Ryan Schuchard, Lynn Segal and Tara Winer responded. Overall, candidates’ responses reflect an awareness about how serious the issue of anti-Semitism in Boulder is.
A Jewish public school teacher who posed as a pro-Palestinian advocate in Philadelphia, Hannah Gann, admitted to fabricating Palestinian, Tunisian and black heritage to her colleagues for years, in a case that some online commenters are dubbing “the Palestinian Rachel Dolezal.”
Charity Commission for England and Wales has opened an investigation into Médecins Sans Frontières UK, also known as Doctors Without Borders, following a report raising concerns about alleged links between the medical charity and terrorist organizations operating in Gaza.
One pilot stabbed another in the cockpit of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in what may have been an attempt to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. A passenger intervened to help restrain the attacker, he added.
“They blow the conch shell. We blow the shofar.” That’s how Rabbi Rachel Short, a rabbi on Hawaii’s Big Island, put it in a conversation the day after JNS reported that Jews, who make up about 0.69% of Hawaii’s population, were the targets of 75% of the religion-based hate crimes in the state in 2025 and, per official data, were targeted in 4.3% of all hate crimes in Hawaii since 2023.
Evan R. Bernstein, the new CEO of B’nai B’rith International, does not think America is heading down the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The bad news is that he doesn’t think that American Jews need to look far afield to be worried about what the community faces in the US.
As six members of the DPS board filed into its monthly meeting Sept. 17, a palpable air of angst was in the air. The board was slated to address the awkward dynamic over allegations that one board member, Monica Hunter, had made a blatantly anti-Semitic remark about fellow board member Amy Klein Molk, who is Jewish.
The agreement between the ADL and Boulder Valley School District includes sweeping changes at the school district, including the designation of an executive-level staff member to serve as the district’s Title VI director and compliance officer.