Today's Life
The Allied Federation Men’s Event last week attracted nearly 1,300 people from the Denver metro area, including 35 men from Boulder who got a free ride...as far as the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Lowry.
“We want to make it as user friendly for our Boulder Federation donors to make it to the Men’s Event,” said AJF’s Boulder Community Director Judy Hall, who organizes the so-called “party bus” from Har HaShem.
“It’s free of charge. We just want the Boulder folks to feel connected. What better way than to provide free transportation, staff and libations.”
This year, Federation provided bottled water and microbrews for the Boulder contingent.
“Judy kept it dry last year,” commented Paul Korda, “but it was rowdy . . . and it was all his fault,” he said, pointing a finger at Jerry Pinsker.
“Rowdy? Me? Last year I was kvetching because we didn’t have beer,” said Pinsker.
Hotels have them to welcome newcomers to town and direct said newbies to events, restaurants, and sights. The model works toward making strangers feel welcome. Why not put the concierge concept into practice in the Boulder Jewish community? For the last few months, Racheli Stanley has been the face of Jewish Boulder –– attending events, acting as the liaison between the unaffiliated and synagogues, keeping track of newcomers and newly interested Jews, and helping people navigate their Jewish...
Slightly more than 100 people trod over chalked sidewalks proclaiming “Peace in Israel” as they gathered inside the Humanities Building on the CU-Boulder campus Monday night, Nov. 17, to hear apartheid connected to the “Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.”The charged, divisive topic might have fired up the crowd, led to verbal assaults, or sparked protests outside the auditorium. It didn’t. That, in part, is due to Stand With Us, an international Israel education organization prime...
On Dec. 14, Rose Medical Center will engage in tikkun olam - “repairing the world” - by rededicating its newly restored Holocaust Torah. About 16 years ago, Rose acquired on permanent loan a Holocaust Torah with a remarkable history. Handwritten by a scribe 120 to 150 years ago, the special parchment contains the Five Books of Moses and was the ritual Judaic focal point of the village of Susice in Czechoslovakia. During WW II, the vast majority of Jewish sacred objects were desecrated, burne...