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Skyler AJ Rose, 22, of Ogden, Utah, was indicted Oct. 21 on five federal counts, including attempting to commit a hate crime, after investigators linked him to threats against a synagogue and found six functional pipe bombs in his home.

On Oct. 29, at 10:55 a.m., to be exact, the perpetrator of the June 1, 2025 terrorist attack — a firebombing — against a group of Boulder Run For Their Lives walkers, plead guilty to all 12 federal charges leveled against him. Mohamad Sabry Soliman has already been convicted of state charges and is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, plus 2,128 years in prison.

Current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is running for Colorado governor in the Nov. 3 election. He faces Republican Victor Marx and a number of independent candidates. The IJN recently spoke with Weiser about his vision for the state.

IJN Columnist Chaim Goldberg speaks with KNUS’ The Jeff & Bill Show the day after the Israel elections. Plus his comments on the race for Colorado’s Congressional District 1.

As Melat Kiros, Democratic candidate for Colorado’s Congressional District 1, continues to insist the deadly June 1, 2025 firebombing in Boulder was not anti-Semitic, the JCRC and firebombing victims respond.

In Colorado's Congressional District 8, Republican incumbent Gabe Evans is facing a challenge from Democratic State Sen. Manny Rutinel. The ethnically and socio-economically diverse district is a toss up.

A Yemeni-American Muslim, Mohammed Al Samawi, took center stage Monday night in Downtown Denver to address the topic, “How do we move beyond hate?” The setting was the inaugural “Together at the Crossroads: A Congress for Allyship & Unity,” organized by the Denver-based David Merage Foundation for Confronting Antisemitism.

Ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the IJN invited Democrat Phil Weiser and Republican Victor Marx to respond to questions. As of press time, Marx responded.

October 7, 2026 — the third yahrzeit of 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, men, women, children and babies, murdered by Hamas terrorists. Yosef Chaim Ohana, who was taken hostage from the Nova music festival, and his best friend Daniel Sharabi, who survived the attack, were in Greenwood Village, Colorado, talking about that fateful day.

At a Colorado interfaith observance at Resurrection Anglican Fellowship in Greenwood Village in advance of the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, the chanting of “Hatikva” was in full force.