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Boulder Jewry comes together in search to handle ultimate necessity
Chris LeppekDec 31, 2014Northern Colorado Issue, Special Sections0
the most basic and sacred obligations any Jewish community has toward its members is to provide a place to bury their loved ones who have passed away. The Colorado foothills community of Boulder is no different, and it continues to meet that obligation honorably and efficiently, as it has for many years. But there’s a problem. For the Jewish deceased of Boulder, the clock is ticking. Just as time never pauses for the living, it marches on relentlessly for the dead, and in Boulder, where the general and Jewish population has grown steadily in recent years, the sad fact is that it’s getting harder and harder to find a place to conduct a Jewish burial. The Jewish section of the city’s beautiful and venerable Green […]