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DENVER, Colo. – June 2021 – B’nai Havurah synagogue announces a new one-year B’nai Mitzvah (Bar/Bat) program for Jewish youth and their families, providing them with the identity and skills needed to be Jewish in today’s world. The program, My Mitzvah, brings together Jewish families from diverse backgrounds and levels of knowledge to train together toward individual and shared goals. The youth participants will gain mastery of Hebrew songs and prayers by reading either Hebrew or transliteration, making the program accessible to those for whom reading Hebrew is an obstacle.
“While the young person is the one experiencing the Mitzvah, this program provides a community for families to connect and find a welcoming, non-judgmental place in which to grow Jewishly with others,” said Risa Aqua, program director of My Mitzvah.
(DENVER) – The Colorado community is invited to stand in solidarity with the Denver Jewish Community at a prayer and rally for peace on Sunday, May 16 at 10:00 a.m.
Hosted by JEWISHColorado and the Rocky Mountain Rabbis and Cantors, the community is invited to join in person outdoors at Temple Emanuel’s Grape Street Lawn (51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220) and streamed via Facebook by JEWISHcolorado and Temple Emanuel Denver. Social distancing and masks encouraged.
Our hearts are with our families, friends, and all of Israel, and we extend our condolences to those who must now mourn in the wake of ongoing violence. We stand in solidarity with Israel as it undertakes efforts to defend its citizens against these terror attacks.
Shavuot is one of the biggest Jewish holidays that you may have never heard of before, or if you did, it was peripheral. The reason for that, most likely, is because it happens right at the end or just after the end of the school year. If you were confirmed, your ceremony might have been on Shavuot, which would be fitting since Shavuot is THE holiday commemorating receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai.
And, like most Jewish holidays, Shavuot has a special food category associated with it: dairy. Think blintzes, kugels and cheesecake. Not that there is anything wrong with cheesecake or blintzes, but why dairy? There are many thoughts and interpretations. It could be, as noted in Exodus, because the Israelites were promised the “land flowing with milk and honey.” Some aver that when the Jews received the Torah on the Sabbath, they were obligated to observe the laws of kashrut, which meant they couldn’t slaughter cattle for a festive meal so they ate dairy instead. For those who l