Rocky Mountain Jew

Have you heard of the Colorado Jewish Indian who fought in an 1868 battle near Wray? Neither had we! OK, he wasn’t actually an Indian, the headline in the July 26, 1951 edition of the IJN led us slightly astray.

Ahead of the publication of its 110th Anniversary Magazine, the Intermountain Jewish News peruses its archives to see how earlier anniversaries were marked, particularly the 40th.

When you kibbitz with your friends, does your babble ever lead to a big brouhaha? English words with Jewish linguistic origins.

On the 28th of Iyar in 1967, during the Six Day War, Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli sovereignty after years of Jordanian rule. Since then, this historic day, today called Jerusalem Day, is celebrated with great enthusiasm and joy by the people of Israel and many Jews worldwide.

to the natural clash between the lunar and solar calendar, Shavuot can fall out either in May or June. Imagine our delight when we discovered that May is American Cheese Month, and that this year Shavuot falls in May!