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We’re looking for volunteers to help out at Milk and Honey Farm! You’ll have the opportunity to dig, weed, plant, and harvest our tzedakah (donation) garden, educational garden beds, and geodesic dome greenhouse. The produce you help grow is donated or used in educational programs. Last year we were thrilled to be able to donate over 4,000 pounds of produce to Boulder county community members experiencing food insecurity. During breaks, volunteers are welcome to spend time with the goats and chickens on the farm.

Volunteer shifts are every Monday and Thursday morning from 8 – 11 am beginning on May 2. You can join us as often as your schedule allows and you just need to register once. 

Milk and Honey Farm is a 2 acre educational sustainable farm located on the campus of the Boulder JCC. The farm brings the community together for experiential programs and activities grounded in Jewish heritage, tradition, and values. The farm provides a place for individuals to connect on the simplest level with soil, plants, animals, and each other. 

Please reach out to Farm coordinator, Rachel Albert, with any questions about Milk and Honey Farm and volunteering.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

This program is designed for all teens, grades 8 – 12, who are interested in sustainability, farming, and cooking. Each Tuesday after school, teens are invited to join us on-site at the JCC’s Milk and Honey Farm. Students will learn a variety of skills such as cheese making, soap making, food preservation, and chicken and goat care (including our newest baby goats!). We follow the Jewish calendar with fun activities and events scheduled to celebrate the holidays.

This program will be held weekly for three months in the Fall and again for three months in the Spring. Together we will grow in community as we grow food.

Join us in-person or virtually for the ReelAbilities Film Festival screening of Imperfect. The film follows an award-winning theater group consisting of actors who live and perform with the uniqueness of disability as they set out to claim their place in the spotlight with a production of the beloved Chicago. Following these actors’ lives inside and outside the theater, curtains are drawn open to overlooked talent and the power of the human condition in all its many forms. View the trailer HERE. 

5:30 – 6:00 pm –  Reception 

6:00 pm –  Screening of the short film Dawn followed by the full-length film Imperfect

7:30 pm – Talkback with Adam Johnson of the Phamily Theater Company. Adam has been honored and humbled to take part in ten productions with Phamaly Theatre Company, so far. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and has studied voice with Jenna Bainbridge. Adam has also served on the Boulder International Fringe Festival Board. 

Thursday, August 25 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | $12

*Online registration will close one hour before the program start time. At-the-door registration will be available.*

Join Women of the J for a fun, low-pressure, hiking meetup. This will be an easy to moderate hike in Boulder County. The perfect opportunity to get outside, get in your daily steps, and connect with others on a beautiful local trail. Location details will be emailed a few days prior to the hike.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

The Boulder JCC is excited to host another Family Shabbat in the Park! Connect with old friends and meet new ones as we sing songs and welcome Shabbat together. Bring a picnic dinner for your family, and we will provide the challah (a gluten-free option is available) and grape juice!

This event will be an in-person, outside event at a park in Louisville. Our inclement weather plan is to reschedule the event. Location details will be emailed a few days prior to the program.

Current local and Boulder JCC Health & Safety Protocols will be observed. Please familiarize yourself with these protocols prior to the event.

Join us in-person or virtually for the ReelAbilities Film Festival screening of Amazing Grace. Grace Fisher was a gifted cellist, pianist, and guitarist, on her way to the world-famous Berklee College of Music in Boston. At her 17th birthday party, she developed a severe pain in her spine. By the time she got to the hospital, 5 minutes away, she couldn’t walk. By that night, she couldn’t breathe. Grace Fisher was diagnosed as patient 101 with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare polio-like disease, with no cure and no clear understanding of why this mysterious illness has ravaged the bodies of over 500 children in the US, most of them under the age of 7. AFM strikes every other year. 2020 is expected to be the worst year yet. If this had happened 50 years ago, Gracie would be living in an iron lung, but due to medical progress and the astounding strength and perseverance of this brilliant musician, Grace is able to live a rewarding life as a composer of sublime musical scores for full orchestras, presented to sold-out audiences. Academy Award-winning composer of La La Land, Justin Hurwitz, says, “Gracie is one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met.” He compares her symphony, Waltz of the Waves, to the scores of Nino Rota, Academy Award-winning composer of The Godfather. Gracie says it best, “My only limitation will be my imagination.” This 55-minute documentary follows Grace Fisher on her journey from “quadriplegic floating head” to triumphant composer relishing a thunderous ovation in the concert hall. With limitations come powers, and in Gracie’s case, the power to create sublime harmonic beauty. View the trailer HERE. 

4:00 – 4:30 pm – Reception
4:30 – 5:30 pm – Screening of the short film Signs and Gestures followed by the full-length film Amazing Grace
5:30 – 6:00 pm – Talkback with Rabbi Baruch Rosenberg, a Yeshivat Hamivtar alumnus, Storahtelling Maven, and the founder and Spiritual Leader of Ohr HaOlam. Prior to Ohr HaOlam, Rabbi Rosenberg worked in Jewish Education serving the Temple Emanuel Denver Religious School community for over a decade. Inspired by his interactions with various disabled students over the years, Rabbi Rosenberg established Ohr HaOlam as a new, virtual Jewish community dedicated to ensuring full inclusion of all disabled Jewish individuals in all aspects of Jewish life.

We’re looking for volunteers to help out at Milk and Honey Farm! You’ll have the opportunity to dig, weed, plant, and harvest our tzedakah (donation) garden, educational garden beds, and geodesic dome greenhouse. The produce you help grow is donated or used in educational programs. Last year we were thrilled to be able to donate over 4,000 pounds of produce to Boulder county community members experiencing food insecurity. During breaks, volunteers are welcome to spend time with the goats and chickens on the farm.

Volunteer shifts are every Monday and Thursday morning from 8 – 11 am beginning on May 2. You can join us as often as your schedule allows and you just need to register once. 

Milk and Honey Farm is a 2 acre educational sustainable farm located on the campus of the Boulder JCC. The farm brings the community together for experiential programs and activities grounded in Jewish heritage, tradition, and values. The farm provides a place for individuals to connect on the simplest level with soil, plants, animals, and each other. 

Please reach out to Farm coordinator, Rachel Albert, with any questions about Milk and Honey Farm and volunteering.

 Wise Aging, is a 5-week program, geared towards women ages 60 years and older starting on September 1.  The program will explore the opportunities and challenges we face as we transition through the ‘third act of life.’ This program invites participants to embrace life and live more mindfully, joyfully, and compassionately as part of the aging journey. Together we will explore using mindfulness practices, journaling, meditation, art expression, study, and sharing as tools for connecting to ourselves and others.

Lori Dube is a social worker and life coach trained in Jewish Mindful Meditation, and Wise Aging facilitation. She led a number of virtual Wise Aging groups for the Boulder JCC and around the country during the Pandemic and is excited to facilitate her first in-person group.

Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder served as the Rabbi of The Shul of New York until moving to Boulder in the summer of 2021. She currently serves as the head of spiritual direction for the ALEPH Ordination Program and maintains a private practice as a spiritual companion. Rabbi Eva has facilitated Wise Aging groups in synagogue and community settings for many years, integrating aspects of her training in meditation, mindfulness, and the expressive arts.

It is strongly recommended to buy the required reading  Wise Aging before the start of the group.

Thursdays, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 |10:00 to 11:30 am | $118

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

We are thrilled to welcome you to the Messinger Gallery for the opening of a new exhibition by photographer Norman Koren. 

Norman Koren’s photography attempts to express the hidden life in intricate, often overlooked details of nature, as well as in old towns and buildings that express the deep individuality of their creators. He is especially attracted to complex abstract designs found in the natural environment, such as lichens on rocks, which evoke realms beyond their subject matter—mysterious planets, magical eggs, and sacred mountains to mention a few.

Norman’s interest in photography started while growing up in Rochester, NY, near the George Eastman House— the great photographic museum that displayed prints of the masters (Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and others) as well as historical and contemporary cameras. Both the artistic and technical displays made a deep impression on him.

During Norman’s 34-year career in magnetic recording technology, which took him to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, northern and Southern California, and finally to Boulder in 1998, photography was his primary passion. Norman studied Ansel Adams’ basic photo series, attended a number of workshops, became proficient in photographic printing, and even taught a few evening courses. He became interested in digital printing after arriving in Boulder, and in 2001 created a website to share what he learned in the process. This led to developing a program, Imatest, for analyzing the quality of digital cameras, which keeps him busy to this day.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

This will be an easy to moderate hike in Boulder County. The perfect opportunity to get outside, get in your daily steps, and connect with others on a beautiful local trail. Registration is required. Location details will be emailed a few days prior to the hike due to changing conditions as we get closer to the program date. 

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

Music, Food, Activities for everyone in the community.  Celebrate the fall season with your family and friends at the Boulder JCC. Join us for live music, family entertainment, and activity stations that celebrate the season and fun for all ages. Tour Milk and Honey Farm and meet our goats, chickens, and koi. 

We will have a reading and book signing of the new PJ Library book “Apples, Apples, Apples” by the author June Sobel.  

Food will be available for purchase. Great opportunity to connect to friends new and old. 

This program is free. Advance registration is recommended. 

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us for Farmside Shabbat under the tent at Milk & Honey Farm. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared to kids 0-7 and their caregivers.

Advance registration is required once for the whole summer.