Today's Life
THE confluence this year of Shavuot and Memorial Day on Monday, May 28, will result in 10 regional synagogues reading — with an indispensable assist from the Intermountan Jewish News — the names of deceased Colorado veterans during their respective Shavuot services.
Organized by the Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council, the commemoration will honor those Colorado Jews who have served in the US Armed Forces from WW I to the present day, including those killed in action and those who served in times of war and peace.
Each synagogue will offer a special prayer and read a portion of the veterans’ names from an extensive list that has been maintained and updated by the IJN for decades, and which the newspaper publishes annually on Memorial Day, including in this week's IJN Home Issue.
Rabbi David Zaslow and Maggidah Devorah Zaslow will begin a maggidic training program in Boulder this August.
The program is a two-year course leading to certification in the field of Jewish storytelling and Torah interpretation.
Classes will be on Sunday afternoons for four hours each month, with regular telephone and Skype sessions held bimonthly.
The first session will be held Sunday, Aug. 26, 2-6 p.m., at Nevei Kodesh, 3629 28th St., Boulder.
It's time to collect wood and buy meat for the barbecue - today is Lag b'Omer! Traditionally Lag b'Omer is an outdoors day, and it looks like the weather will be cooperating with sunny skies predicted. Several family events are taking place today across the Metro area, and if you miss the fun today, Ekar Farms is hosting a joint Lag b'Omer/Mother's Day celebration on Sunday. Visit our Community Calendar for details of all these events.
In Denver, Bais Menachem is holding its annual Lag b'Omer...
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado in Ft. Collins, received the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at CSU.
As part of Gorelik’s outreach work in the communities and colleges of northern Colorado, he serves as faculty adjunct at CSU, teaching a Judaism course in the philosophy department.
He also serves as the faculty advisor of the Chabad Jewish Student Association.
Siobhan Waitzman, senior and president of the student group, explained wh...
AFTER a three year hiatus, the Hebrew Club at CU Boulder is back. And, as some hope, better than before.
Carly Coons is a senior and recalls the club in its earlier incarnation.
“The old club started to [allow us to practice speaking Hebrew], but this is the energy and enthusiasm that it really needed. It’s something I really need.”
She’s talking about the guitar-strummin’, Hebrew rappin’, hip-hop singin’ instructor who’s breathing new life into the club: Eyal Rivlin, born in ...