Event Type 2: Community Event

Join YAD and JEWISHcolorado’s Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) for an evening of thought-provoking conversation over drinks and bites, featuring Q&A with JCRC Acting Chair and former IDF soldier, Jules Kramer. 

About Jules Kramer
Raised in Denver, Jules spent most of the last two decades in Israel. After serving in the 890th Battalion of the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade, Jules designed and led missions exploring the Israeli–Palestinian conflict with global leaders and elected officials from all six continents and student leadership missions from leading Master’s in Public Policy programs. After leaving the tourism industry, Jules was the Director of Policy for Glowlit, a Tel Aviv-based start-up that built a machine-learning platform to create price transparency in global raw materials. Recently, Jules was VP of Customer Experience at Biofire, a start-up that built the world’s first biometrically enabled handgun. Currently, Jules advises early-stage start-ups on their go-to-market strategy.

Every first Saturday of the month gather at 9 for a child-centered joyful service designed for kids ages 0-7, followed at 10 by an all ages interactive and musical shabbat service for the whole family, with simultaneous childcare provided.  A light, kid friendly, vegetarian lunch to follow.

(Event registration is available on B’nai Havurah’s website- the form is created each month to reflect the specific details of the event) (For more information, email Hannah at youthandfamily@bnaihavurah.org)

GRANDPARENTS & PARENTS : Bring your grandchildren and children! We’d love to see you!

Join us for an all ages Shabbat in the Park at Platt Park! Bring blankets, chairs, or whatever you’d like to sit on and stay comfortable. Bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share as well! The service will begin at 10 am, and will be followed by a potluck lunch. 

The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center’s Denver Children’s Theatre is hosting performances of the play “Tomás and the Library Lady” from the book of the same name. Public performances will be held on February 11, 18 and 25 at 10 a.m. The performance on February 18 will be free as an SCFD Free Day event and will also be an Accessibility Day. The performance will offer ASL interpretation, audio description, and will be sensory-friendly. Seating is reserved and tickets must be secured through the website. Tickets to the shows on Feb. 11 and Feb. 25 cost $11.50 per person.

Denver Jewish Mums! Join us for a summer series of music, friends, fun and play with your little one/s!

Led by Rivka Leah, an experienced music & movement children’s facilitator and the Director of Bright Lights Early Learning Center – you can look forward to lots of fun with puppets, bubbles, percussions, scarves & more as we dance, sing and move with Jewish themed music while making friends!

Schedule:

10:00am Indoor free play – Discover where the magic happens at Bright Lights with fun play stations to experience and explore. This is an opportunity for friends to mingle and chat.
10:30am Music fun begins with puppets, percussions, scarves, parachute and more!
10:50am Snack time – A range of healthy snacks are provided
11:00am Outdoor play and bubbles – Enjoy our sandpit, bikes and trikes track (with a real traffic light!), play kitchen (with real water) and soft tumble play for littles on our thick faux turf.
Catering to ages 0-5, please join us for our 4 Sunday morning sessions beginning June 30th 10am!

Attendance is free with a suggested donation of $5/session

Mystical Hebrew Letters: The early Kabbalah focused on the Hebrew letters and language and how this code underlies creation. The beauty of the letters is expressed through their meaning, shape, name and numerical value. The Hebrew letters are containers for the energies of time, including the months of the year and the 12 Spiritual Senses of Soul explained in Sefer Yetzirah (The book of Formation). 

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Class: $250

Dreams & Kabbalah: “A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read.” This quote is not from Freud or Jung but from the Zohar, the classic medieval Kabbalah text connecting dreams and our spiritual growth. We spend an average of 9 years dreaming. What do our dreams reflect to us of our experience? How are dreams guides for our emotional and spiritual development? Come and see the significance of dreams. Journaling and sharing your dreams helps you apply the Kabbalah dream framework.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Soul: The study of Kabbalah enables us to discover what is hidden from our perception in plain sight. In this introduction to the basic teachings of the Kabbalah you learn to see beyond habituated and constricted thinking and become open to experiencing the connectivity of all of created reality—what is known in physics as Quantum Entanglement, in Depth Psychology as Synchronicity and in Kabbalah as Soul Connections.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Monday, July 8 | 5:30 – 7 pm | $12 for a single class, $40 for all four classes
Instructor: Dr. Erica Ellingson

Join us at the Farm to purchase of Pint’s Peak Ice Cream and a Farm Tour!

The field of skyscape archaeology explores how ancient cultures perceived and conceived the sky and its objects. Dr. Ellingson’s lecture will focus on our scientific and humanistic relationships with the moon across cultures and history. This lecture will touch on how civilizations understood lunar cycles, eclipses, how the moon influenced their mythology, prehistoric structures (think Stonehenge), and the use of the lunar (think Hebrew) calendar. And, because we are currently in the period of the “Major Lunar Standstill” – an 18.6-year cycle during which the moon’s orbit of Earth oscillates or wobbles – learn about the upcoming moonrise events at Colorado’s Chimney Rock National Monument in September 2024.

Dr. Erica Ellingson is an astrophysicist who delights in using telescopes large and small, in space and at observatories worldwide. Her work includes investigating galaxy clusters, the evolution of galaxies, black holes, and the mysterious cosmological forces of dark matter and dark energy. Her research also includes historical and archaeo-astronomy and she is an editor with the International Journal of Skyscape Archaeology. She also teaches and produces educational programs at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado and is an astronomical consultant with the U.S. National Park Service. Enjoy delicious food for purchase from Pint’s Peak Ice Cream Truck from 4 – 7:30 pm and enjoy a tour of the Milk and Honey Farm at 7 pm. 

The concept of soul transmigration was introduced into Judaism by the Kabbalah masters of France and Spain in the early twelfth century. Reincarnation speaks to our awareness of self-identity as it takes on new forms through different lifetimes. We explore the philosophic, scientific and spiritual understandings of reincarnation and offer the experience of a guided group regression for access to prior life experiences.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Going to the next level of dream interpretation, we apply a Kabbalistic frame to reveal how our dreams connect us with our life purpose. Students present their dreams and identify unrealized opportunities for making their life more meaningful.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

People are often surprised to hear the term “Jewish meditation.” Otherwise knowledgeable Jews, including many rabbis and scholars are not aware that such a thing exists. ~ Aryeh Kaplan

In this class we will explore the foundations of Jewish meditation, incorporating goals, techniques and practice. This class is designed for individuals with little or no background in Jewish meditation.

Students are encouraged to purchase Aryeh Kaplans book Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

In an era marked by the Israel-Hamas conflict, campus protests, and a contentious election year, we face many emotionally charged issues that exacerbate preexisting rifts. The ideological gaps, communication breakdowns, and diminishing mutual respect between conservatives and progressives, North Americans and Israelis, and between parents and their children (or their parents) present a daunting yet urgent challenge.

Fortunately, the kabbalah and received Jewish spiritual tradition offer two invaluable principled practices to help us bridge these growing divides. In this special summer session, we will explore and practice the art of machloket l’shem shamayim (debate for the sake of heaven) and tocheicha (loving rebuke). Join us to learn how these ancient insights can foster understanding, respectful discourse, and reconciliation in today’s polarized world.

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Musar offers a framework and a toolkit for translating the philosophical wisdom of kabbalah into a personalized, ongoing spiritual discipline. “Introduction to Mussar” – a deep dive into a new translation and commentary on the classical musar text, “Pathways of Moral Leadership” [Orchot Tzadiqim].

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a powerful resource for navigating the stresses and challenges of today’s crazy world and a somatic map for realigning your bodyheartmindspirit. In this class you will learn spiritual practices for accessing and embodying the Tree of Life to bring you into a calmer and more compassionate way of living. Come ready to experience a participatory class including guided meditations and movement.

Instructor: Rabbi Jeff Foust

This Course will be offered virtually through Zoom (no in-person option)

7-Week Course: $250

Join us in Aspen for out-of-the-box reflections by Israeli Druze politician and journalist, Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh. Gadeer is the first non-Jewish Israeli to serve as a senior shaliach for the Jewish Agency. 

4:30-5:15pm Lion Pre-Receptioin
5-7pm Program

Registration opens soon. 

Space: A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite flow into and from each other. We enter places, form relationships and pursue projects often with little understanding of how they come about, their meaning and the relevance of seeing beyond what manifests. In this introduction to the Tree of Life we learn about and then practice incorporating this system of energy flow in all our interactions.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250

The national bestseller from one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?

Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care. 

Integrating the wisdom of Kabbalah into the text, we will explore this book and its lessons to manifest greater connection and meaning in our lives.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250

Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Denver Union Station’s revitalization while supporting JEWISHcolorado. 

Purchase a ticket through JEWISHcolorado and 100% of the proceeds will help us continue to convene, connect, invest, and protect Jewish life in Colorado, Israel, and around the world.

This event demonstrates a significant commitment to the local community by bringing together Denver’s citizens in support of local nonprofits for a memorable summer evening.

Featuring performances by The Colorado Symphony, haikuists, ice sculpturists, and live painting, and more! Enjoy the food and drink of our chef-led restaurants, and take in the renovations of our station at the event of the decade!

Come join every second Friday or Saturday for a monthly covid safe(r) service at B’nai Havurah!

This Kabbalat Shabbat or Havdalah gathering is open to everyone, and aims to be a radically welcoming space for us to pray, sing, and connect in community together. 

The service will be a song-ful blend of traditional tunes and prayers and new interpretations – No background knowledge required! All voices are needed and welcome. Services will be co-led by Sarah Kaplan Gould, a queer and trans B’nai community member and ritual leader, along with Rabbi Katie. 

In this space, we affirm and honor justice, equality, and dignity for all people, and celebrate our kehillah kedosha – sacred community – through soulful prayer and a collective commitment to a more just world.

In order to make our gathering safer for those with health vulnerabilities and covid concerns, all participants will be required to wear a well fitting mask (and will be provided one if you don’t have one). Those leading may unmask for lipreading accessibility, but will be required to take a rapid covid test the day of the service.

We will not provide dinner, but will have kiddush and motzi at the end of the service. 

Mystical Hebrew Letters: The early Kabbalah focused on the Hebrew letters and language and how this code underlies creation. The beauty of the letters is expressed through their meaning, shape, name and numerical value. The Hebrew letters are containers for the energies of time, including the months of the year and the 12 Spiritual Senses of Soul explained in Sefer Yetzirah (The book of Formation). 

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Class: $250

Dreams & Kabbalah: “A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read.” This quote is not from Freud or Jung but from the Zohar, the classic medieval Kabbalah text connecting dreams and our spiritual growth. We spend an average of 9 years dreaming. What do our dreams reflect to us of our experience? How are dreams guides for our emotional and spiritual development? Come and see the significance of dreams. Journaling and sharing your dreams helps you apply the Kabbalah dream framework.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Soul: The study of Kabbalah enables us to discover what is hidden from our perception in plain sight. In this introduction to the basic teachings of the Kabbalah you learn to see beyond habituated and constricted thinking and become open to experiencing the connectivity of all of created reality—what is known in physics as Quantum Entanglement, in Depth Psychology as Synchronicity and in Kabbalah as Soul Connections.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Monday, July 15 | 5:30 – 7 pm | $12 for a single class, $40 for all four classes
Instructor: Thomas Dybdahl with Chris Turner

With the Brady Rule decision in 1963, the Supreme Court decreed that prosecutors must disclose favorable evidence to the defense that might exonerate the defendant of guilt—part of a suite of decisions aimed at promoting fairness in the criminal justice system. Focusing on an infamous 1984 murder case in Washington, DC, learn how and why the Brady Rule, which was supposed to promote fairness, ended up doing the very opposite, and why prosecutorial misconduct has become the single leading cause of wrongful convictions. This misconduct sent Chris Turner, one of those convicted for the DC crime, to jail for 25 years for a murder he did not commit. Both men will discuss and answer questions about a path to lasting change and how individual citizens can make a difference.

Tom Dybdahl was an attorney at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. for 13 years where he tried 25 homicide cases. His book, When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule, is a finalist for the 2024 Colorado Book Awards (General Nonfiction category). Tom has graduate degrees in journalism, law, and theology. Chris Turner, one of the principal subjects of Tom’s book, will tell us how he survived decades behind bars knowing that he was innocent.

The concept of soul transmigration was introduced into Judaism by the Kabbalah masters of France and Spain in the early twelfth century. Reincarnation speaks to our awareness of self-identity as it takes on new forms through different lifetimes. We explore the philosophic, scientific and spiritual understandings of reincarnation and offer the experience of a guided group regression for access to prior life experiences.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Going to the next level of dream interpretation, we apply a Kabbalistic frame to reveal how our dreams connect us with our life purpose. Students present their dreams and identify unrealized opportunities for making their life more meaningful.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

People are often surprised to hear the term “Jewish meditation.” Otherwise knowledgeable Jews, including many rabbis and scholars are not aware that such a thing exists. ~ Aryeh Kaplan

In this class we will explore the foundations of Jewish meditation, incorporating goals, techniques and practice. This class is designed for individuals with little or no background in Jewish meditation.

Students are encouraged to purchase Aryeh Kaplans book Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

In an era marked by the Israel-Hamas conflict, campus protests, and a contentious election year, we face many emotionally charged issues that exacerbate preexisting rifts. The ideological gaps, communication breakdowns, and diminishing mutual respect between conservatives and progressives, North Americans and Israelis, and between parents and their children (or their parents) present a daunting yet urgent challenge.

Fortunately, the kabbalah and received Jewish spiritual tradition offer two invaluable principled practices to help us bridge these growing divides. In this special summer session, we will explore and practice the art of machloket l’shem shamayim (debate for the sake of heaven) and tocheicha (loving rebuke). Join us to learn how these ancient insights can foster understanding, respectful discourse, and reconciliation in today’s polarized world.

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Musar offers a framework and a toolkit for translating the philosophical wisdom of kabbalah into a personalized, ongoing spiritual discipline. “Introduction to Mussar” – a deep dive into a new translation and commentary on the classical musar text, “Pathways of Moral Leadership” [Orchot Tzadiqim].

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a powerful resource for navigating the stresses and challenges of today’s crazy world and a somatic map for realigning your bodyheartmindspirit. In this class you will learn spiritual practices for accessing and embodying the Tree of Life to bring you into a calmer and more compassionate way of living. Come ready to experience a participatory class including guided meditations and movement.

Instructor: Rabbi Jeff Foust

This Course will be offered virtually through Zoom (no in-person option)

7-Week Course: $250

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) was directly and disproportionately impacted by the Hamas terror attacks on October 7. Join us for a conversation with BGU students who recently returned from fighting in combat units in Gaza and now find ways to still serve while pursuing their academic degrees. A4BGU CEO, Doug Seserman and BGU Vice-President for Public Affairs and Resource Development, Jeff Kaye will be in attendance to share how A4BGU and BGU stood on the front lines with its surrounding community to grieve, heal, and lead critical recovery and rebuilding efforts – all while continuing to solve some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. As the anchor institution and engine for growth in the Negev, BGU, now more than ever, represents the way forward.

This program is presented in partnership with B’nai Vail

For more than twelve years, Ambassador Dennis Ross played a leading role in U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and was instrumental in assisting Israel and Palestine reach the 1995 Interim Agreements and in brokering the 1997 Hebron Accord. He served Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, and is currently the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization.

In this special program, Ambassador Ross helps us understand the current status of the conflict, the context in which it arose, the key players and where it may go from here.

The program will be moderated by veteran foreign correspondent and Emmy-award winning journalist Greg Dobbs, who spent the majority of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East.

Space: A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite flow into and from each other. We enter places, form relationships and pursue projects often with little understanding of how they come about, their meaning and the relevance of seeing beyond what manifests. In this introduction to the Tree of Life we learn about and then practice incorporating this system of energy flow in all our interactions.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250

The national bestseller from one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?

Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care. 

Integrating the wisdom of Kabbalah into the text, we will explore this book and its lessons to manifest greater connection and meaning in our lives.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250

Join us on Friday, July 19th at B’nai East at 2 pm for an all ages babka bake and crafting sessions!

Whether you’re an expert baker or a complete newbie, come and make babka while schmoozing!

Be prepared to leave with a tasty babka, some new baking insight, and a new craft under your belt!

Snacks, drinks, expert baker advice, and ingredients will be provided. (Gluten free options available upon request.)  

Families with children are welcome!

With our beautiful new outside Pavilion as the backdrop, we will eat, sing, dance, play and pray as a community. Bring your blankets, your lawn chairs and Shabbat spirit!

5:15 -5:45 pm: Picnic -OR- Pizza dinner. Set up your space near the Pavillion or on the lawn. Starting with Candles, Kiddush and Motzi, bring your own picnic or purchase Pizza for your family for $5/person (children 5 and under free). We will provide water, lemonade and an ice cream treat for dessert! Robin’s World Playground will be open for children ages 5 and under.
5:45-6:20 pm: An Intergenerational Rhythm & Ruach with Debbie Foster followed by a huge horah in the parking lot! Rhythm and Ruach is a joyful Jewish experience with instruments, singing and movement.
6:15-7:00 pm: A beautiful outside Shabbat service with Rabbi Shields and Cantorial Soloist Ruthie Lipshulch.
7:00pm: An Oneg Shabbat in the foyer with the congregants from our weekly Erev Shabbat service.

Come for the entire experience or just for a bit! But come…because it is going to be fab!

Jewish Shabbat Services are held on the third Friday of every month by the Longmont Shabbat Group, a community-based Jewish group. The services include lighting Shabbat candles and informal readings. Coffee and dessert (Oneg Shabbat) follows each service. For details, call 303-651-6822, visit www.longmontshabbatgroup.com, or e-mail shabbat1818@gmail.com.

Join Cantor Marty and friends on a bike ride on Sunday, July 21st at 11:00 am. We will meet at Cherry Creek State Park in the parking lot left of the park entrance.

Denver Jewish Mums! Join us for a summer series of music, friends, fun and play with your little one/s!

Led by Rivka Leah, an experienced music & movement children’s facilitator and the Director of Bright Lights Early Learning Center – you can look forward to lots of fun with puppets, bubbles, percussions, scarves & more as we dance, sing and move with Jewish themed music while making friends!

Schedule:

10:00am Indoor free play – Discover where the magic happens at Bright Lights with fun play stations to experience and explore. This is an opportunity for friends to mingle and chat.
10:30am Music fun begins with puppets, percussions, scarves, parachute and more!
10:50am Snack time – A range of healthy snacks are provided
11:00am Outdoor play and bubbles – Enjoy our sandpit, bikes and trikes track (with a real traffic light!), play kitchen (with real water) and soft tumble play for littles on our thick faux turf.
Catering to ages 0-5, please join us for our 4 Sunday morning sessions beginning June 30th 10am!

Attendance is free with a suggested donation of $5/session

Mystical Hebrew Letters: The early Kabbalah focused on the Hebrew letters and language and how this code underlies creation. The beauty of the letters is expressed through their meaning, shape, name and numerical value. The Hebrew letters are containers for the energies of time, including the months of the year and the 12 Spiritual Senses of Soul explained in Sefer Yetzirah (The book of Formation). 

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Class: $250

Dreams & Kabbalah: “A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read.” This quote is not from Freud or Jung but from the Zohar, the classic medieval Kabbalah text connecting dreams and our spiritual growth. We spend an average of 9 years dreaming. What do our dreams reflect to us of our experience? How are dreams guides for our emotional and spiritual development? Come and see the significance of dreams. Journaling and sharing your dreams helps you apply the Kabbalah dream framework.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Soul: The study of Kabbalah enables us to discover what is hidden from our perception in plain sight. In this introduction to the basic teachings of the Kabbalah you learn to see beyond habituated and constricted thinking and become open to experiencing the connectivity of all of created reality—what is known in physics as Quantum Entanglement, in Depth Psychology as Synchronicity and in Kabbalah as Soul Connections.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Monday, July 22 | 5:30 – 7 pm | $12 for a single class, $40 for all four classes
Instructor: Ron Bostwick

Alan Arkin’s career encompassed films and TV shows that are embedded in our collective memories.  From humor (The Russians Are Coming, The In-Laws, The Kominsky Method), to touching humanity (The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Little Miss Sunshine), to terrifying drama (Wait Until Dark), he did it all. Over more than seven decades, Arkin received an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Tony Award and nominations for six Emmys as an American actor and filmmaker. In this class, Ron Bostwick will discuss and show film clips and photos from Alan Arkin’s career and share personal stories from their friendship.

Ron Bostwick has spent his life in and around media (radio, TV, film).  He is currently the promotions director and evening host of the online music station The Colorado Sound. Over the past 15 years, he has also been the special event producer and host of marquee interviews at the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF).

The concept of soul transmigration was introduced into Judaism by the Kabbalah masters of France and Spain in the early twelfth century. Reincarnation speaks to our awareness of self-identity as it takes on new forms through different lifetimes. We explore the philosophic, scientific and spiritual understandings of reincarnation and offer the experience of a guided group regression for access to prior life experiences.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Going to the next level of dream interpretation, we apply a Kabbalistic frame to reveal how our dreams connect us with our life purpose. Students present their dreams and identify unrealized opportunities for making their life more meaningful.

Instructor: Dr. David Sanders

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

People are often surprised to hear the term “Jewish meditation.” Otherwise knowledgeable Jews, including many rabbis and scholars are not aware that such a thing exists. ~ Aryeh Kaplan

In this class we will explore the foundations of Jewish meditation, incorporating goals, techniques and practice. This class is designed for individuals with little or no background in Jewish meditation.

Students are encouraged to purchase Aryeh Kaplans book Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

In an era marked by the Israel-Hamas conflict, campus protests, and a contentious election year, we face many emotionally charged issues that exacerbate preexisting rifts. The ideological gaps, communication breakdowns, and diminishing mutual respect between conservatives and progressives, North Americans and Israelis, and between parents and their children (or their parents) present a daunting yet urgent challenge.

Fortunately, the kabbalah and received Jewish spiritual tradition offer two invaluable principled practices to help us bridge these growing divides. In this special summer session, we will explore and practice the art of machloket l’shem shamayim (debate for the sake of heaven) and tocheicha (loving rebuke). Join us to learn how these ancient insights can foster understanding, respectful discourse, and reconciliation in today’s polarized world.

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

Musar offers a framework and a toolkit for translating the philosophical wisdom of kabbalah into a personalized, ongoing spiritual discipline. “Introduction to Mussar” – a deep dive into a new translation and commentary on the classical musar text, “Pathways of Moral Leadership” [Orchot Tzadiqim].

Instructor: Rabbi Jamie Arnold

Classes are offered in-person and virtually through Zoom

7 Week Course: $250

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a powerful resource for navigating the stresses and challenges of today’s crazy world and a somatic map for realigning your bodyheartmindspirit. In this class you will learn spiritual practices for accessing and embodying the Tree of Life to bring you into a calmer and more compassionate way of living. Come ready to experience a participatory class including guided meditations and movement.

Instructor: Rabbi Jeff Foust

This Course will be offered virtually through Zoom (no in-person option)

7-Week Course: $250

NCJW Colorado is holding a Family Potluck picnic and High Line Canal cleanup on Sunday, August 25, starting at 11 am at Long’s Pine Grove park.

Please contact us at ncjwcolorado@gmail.com and keep an eye on our website at www.ncjwcolorado.org for details and signups.

Bring a picnic dinner and toys.

PJ Library will provide desserts!

SE Aurora Neighborhood Firepit

RSVP for exact address on facebook at Southeast Tribe or to bfriedlander@jewishcolorado.org

Join the JEWISHcolorado Real Estate & Construction Network for our summer gathering with drinks, appetizers, and schmoozing, featuring guest speaker Michael Staenberg.

About Michael Staenberg

Founder and president of The Staenberg Group, Michael Staenberg is a visionary and philanthropist. He has achieved unprecedented success in the commercial real estate sector and has helped to create quality communities nationwide. As a philanthropist, Staenberg has contributed to hundreds of nonprofit organizations throughout the United States and Israel guided by his authentic commitment to the Jewish teachings of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). He has developed over 250 shopping centers comprising more than 45 million square feet of premier retail space. He established the Staenberg Family Foundation in 2005 in support of Jewish causes and programs relating to arts and culture, children, education, medical research and social services. Staenberg takes a hands-on approach to improving the overall effectiveness of nonprofits by leveraging pro bono services, industry expertise and in-kind resources which are valued at $200 million.

Stuart Zall, RECN Chair | Neil Oberfeld, Campaign Chair

RECN Events Committee
Eric Kessler, Chair | Brian Botnick | Eric Drucker | Kendra Goldstein Jessica Jordan | Adam Laarsen, YAD Chair | Jason Pomerantz

Thank you to our generous sponsors (as of 6.15.24)
Michael Staenberg | The Chotin Foundation | Zall Company

Come relieve stress, decrease anxiety and connect with others with the Jewish Fertility Foundation and Tara O’Donoghue, trauma-informed yoga teacher from Lov Yoga, on World IVF Day for infertility focused yoga. The class will take place in Sloan’s Lake, exact location to be shared after registration. Bring your own yoga mat!

Space: A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite flow into and from each other. We enter places, form relationships and pursue projects often with little understanding of how they come about, their meaning and the relevance of seeing beyond what manifests. In this introduction to the Tree of Life we learn about and then practice incorporating this system of energy flow in all our interactions.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250

The national bestseller from one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?

Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care. 

Integrating the wisdom of Kabbalah into the text, we will explore this book and its lessons to manifest greater connection and meaning in our lives.

Instructor: Melanie Gruenwald

Courses are offered in-person as well as virtually through Zoom

7-Week Course: $250