Steve Mark

It is lunchtime at Ramah in the Rockies, which is considered a sacred time for its camp director. Only a phone call from the supplier of a commercial vacuum cleaner can tear Rabbi Eliav Bock away from his campers. “We just got it, and it’s not the right thing,” says Bock.

After word of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s untimely death spread, reaction from both aisles of Congress poured in. Doug Friednash, the chief of staff to former Gov. John Hickenlooper, has been intimately familiar with Graham’s impact on foreign relations, and specifically, his longtime support for Israel.

At 8:30 a.m. on July 5, Bruce Shaffer was the first to arrive at the Colorado Convention Center, holding a sign that said “T/Y N.E.A. For No To Anti Zionist Hate.” The message was aimed at members of the National Education Assn. “It’s really important to be out here,” Shaffer said, “and let the NEA know that we’re really in favor of solid education that presents kids with fair content and not indoctrination to anti-Zionist, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tropes that predispose them to a type of thinking that really just leads nowhere but to hatred.

Last month, retired Judge Gary Jackson and other collaborators hosted “Cherry Creek 150 and the Untold Story, A Colorado Sesquicentennial Chronicle,” a presentation at The Daniels Fund Bldg. Panelists included Jackson and Gerard Rudofsky, whose family has lived in Cherry Creek North.

In a solemn moment, US Army Commander Chris Countouriotis rose from his seat at the Boulder JCC and summed up the life of former Boulder resident Jacob Wiese. “He set an example for all of us to follow,” said Countouriotis. “Humility, passion, confidence, and an unwavering trust with adaptability and commitment.”