Shana Goldberg

The day before Cantor Zachary Kutner’s funeral, I happened to be speaking with Rabbi Tzvi Steinberg, formerly of Zera Abraham, who lives on the East Coast.

A hot topic of debate these days is defining anti-Semitism — almost to the point where the definition is discussed more than the actual anti-Semitism. At the Boulder Valley School District hearing this month some people spent more time decrying the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism than they did expressing concern that children were physically harassed and bullied because they were Jewish.

What was the largest forced population transfer in human history? Most will be surprised to hear that it was of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to Germany, following the Nazis’ defeat in WW II.

Eight years ago, Jeremy D. (JD) Krones moved to Grand Lake to run Colorado Headwaters Land Trust. Today, he is running for County Commissioner for Grand County.

In case you missed it, I’ve started a puzzle gemach (free loan). Thousand-piece puzzles have become one of my favorite ways to tune out the world. As one works on a puzzle, it’s nearly impossible to think about anything outside the puzzle.