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As six members of the DPS board filed into its monthly meeting Sept. 17, a palpable air of angst was in the air. The board was slated to address the awkward dynamic over allegations that one board member, Monica Hunter, had made a blatantly anti-Semitic remark about fellow board member Amy Klein Molk, who is Jewish.

The agreement between the ADL and Boulder Valley School District includes sweeping changes at the school district, including the designation of an executive-level staff member to serve as the district’s Title VI director and compliance officer.

The COVID-19 pandemic was not only a test of health systems. It was also a test of whether governments could be trusted to report what was happening, and a new Israeli study suggests that the strength of a country’s institutions may have mattered more than its ability to count.

Tara Winer has been on Boulder’s City Council since 2021. She is now running for her final term. Her demeanor was immensely positive and it is clear she feels called to do the work she’s been doing. How does she feel about being a Jew today in Boulder? How does she navigate the rise of anti-Semitism, specifically in local city politics?

In an attempt to deny accusations of anti-Semitism, a restaurant on East Colfax that barred Zionists earlier this week told one former patron that “Zionism is a political ideology like Nazism is.” On Sept. 8, Sap Sua, a fine dining Vietnamese restaurant, posted on its Instagram “From the River to the Sea, Falastine will be free.”

The Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) has entered into a settlement agreement to implement comprehensive, districtwide measures to prevent and address anti-Semitic harassment, bullying and discrimination, resolving a federal civil rights complaint filed by ADL.

Liberal Michigan rabbis and other Jewish leaders are calling on the Democratic Party to agree to a list of “nonnegotiable” principles about Jewish safety and Israel as the party’s US Senate candidate in the state, Abdul El-Sayed, seeks to make inroads with Jewish voters.

The United Kingdom, France and Canada will ban goods produced in the West Bank settlements and Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on Sept. 8, stating that all such communities were deemed by his country to be illegal.

Gloria Steinem, the feminist who turbocharged the women’s rights movement and cast the liberation of women as part of the broader project of eliminating other bigotries, died at 92.

President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded a medal of honor on Aug. 27 to Natan Sharansky in Kiev for his efforts to help Ukraine and preserve the memory of the Holocaust there.