It used to be that you might see security guards at large Jewish community events. That changed with the 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life center, in which 11 people were murdered during Shabbat services. Now, most Jewish events, large and small, have security detail — many times, armed — and many synagogues have armed security regularly.
Jewish oasis exists in, of all places, Longmont, Colorado, west of I-25 North and 30 miles from Boulder. On the fifth day of Chanukah in Boulder, winds are howling up to 92 mph. The electricity is off in much of the town, with no promise of when the lights would be back on.
The mid-December announcement that the Trump administration intends to close the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder has been met with fierce protest. Sen. Michael Bennet says he is committed to keeping NCAR open, and hundreds gathered on Dec. 20 in Boulder to publicly express their opposition to the move.
For over a decade, a small group of unassuming Fvolunteers from Boulder have supported sustainability projects in Israel and the West Bank. The starting point for Sustainable Israeli Palestinian Projects (SIPP), an organization that focuses on forward-looking cross-border projects, was, surprisingly, a negative event. As one its founders, Peter Ornstein, tells it, the group began after the contentious debate that erupted after Nablus in the West Bank was proposed as a Boulder Sister City. (The effort, in 2013, failed; a second effort, in 2016, passed.)
Among the Jewish institutions and organizations in northern Colorado is BBYO, operating out of Har Shalom in Fort Collins. The combination of the coronavirus and some graduating seniors meant the chapter had gone quiet. But that changed in the last year as Berthoud teen Zelda Stebbins has taken the reins.
Denver metro’s population boom and increasingly expensive real estate market has driven growth across the Front Range, Some seek more affordable housing. Others are drawn to smaller, quieter towns. And, in Colorado, one can never underestimate proximity to the outdoors in choosing a community to settle in. The general trend has been paralleled by a growth in Jewish communal life. Meet some of the faces of Northern Colorado’s robust and growing Jewish community.
Too many times since Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Max Weiser saw signs of hate on the campus of CU Boulder. His campus. “It was really heavy …
A native of South Africa, Rep. Ron Weinberg who today represents Loveland in the Colorado State House, immigrated to Los Angeles with his family in 2002, concerned about the civil unrest that was then plaguing that country.
Twenty years ago, Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, a native of Australia who has been at the Chabad Jewish Center since 2005 and is also on the faculty at CSU, orchestrated what has become a big hit in Fort Collins.
The rabbi replies speaks with Lynne Goldsmith of Or Hadash in Fort Collins: “If you can talk to somebody who you disagree with violently and still see that image of G-d in them, things are going to be OK.”
A few days shy of the anniversary of one of the most catastrophic events in Colorado history, the scene at the Oerman-Roche Trailhead in Superior spoke volumes. One year ago, scores of displaced homeowners rushed to the trailhead to get an overhead view of their decimated Sagamore neighborhood as a result of the Marshall Fire of Dec. 30, 2021.
It is a picture-perfect day in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Brett Kingstone is perched on his deck, 5,850 ft. high in Boulder’s Sunshine Canyon. What he views on the horizon is breathtaking, except for a few virtual clouds that Kingstone sees as a divisive culture permeating the landscape.
Todd Saliman, formerly CU’s senior vice president for strategy, government relations and chief financial officer, has been the university’s interim president since July 1, in the wake of the early exit of former president Mark Kennedy.
Relocating to Colorado last year, Vicki Mizel has encapsulated much of her knowledge and experience in memory training into her recently published book, Love Remembers.
In a catastrophe, every survivor has a unique story. In the case of the December 30 Marshall Fire that tore through Superior and Louisville, Colorado, though, there is one distinct, common theme.
I am the Northern Star, born on the banks of the Ohio River, AKA the Jordan River. I am the Star of David, a Jewess through and through. I am …
Roughly a third of a million people live in Boulder County, perhaps one-tenth of whom are Jewish, according to recent demographic studies. Of those human beings, as of Dec. 19, …
Tina Walker is not a traditional doula, an ancient Greek term that was popularized in the 1960s to mean women helping women before, during and after labor. Walker, an end-of-life …
Josh Goldin’s moment of truth came on a sunny September afternoon in Lincoln, Nebraska. Memorial Stadium was, as always, filled to capacity — 85,000-plus fans cheering on their beloved Cornhuskers, millions …
Given a choice, Eve Ilsen would focus exclusively on her late husband Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, unrivaled leader of the Jewish Renewal movement until his death in 2014. Ilsen, 70 and …
Josh Dinar publishes DiningOut magazine, co-owns two restaurants and is a rising star in the Denver-Boulder Jewish firmament — but he never planned any of the above. “I did not …
For Gili Elkin, Boulder is more than a prime destination for spirited recreationalists. When the transplanted Israeli looks out the window, she envisions the future capital of tech innovation in …
It’s not every day that you hear an attorney — let alone the dean of one of the nation’s top law schools — invoke the name of G-d, and a …
RABBI SARAH Bracha Gershuny is a whirlwind attached to a serene center. Like a thoughtful powder keg, excited words overlap without obscuring the meaning. Gershuny became the spiritual leader at Boulder’s …