Photo slideshows from the 2010 Festival are now available.  Click here to see them!

As our friends at the IJN remarked, “Jews along the Front Range need go no further than Boulder this Sunday for their own feel-good day of celebrating Jewish life, Boulder-style of course.”

Explore, enjoy, engage! Be sure to pick up the free Festival program/”Connecting to Jewish Boulder” book at the event, the “yellow pages” of Jewish Boulder, and of course commemorative t-shirts are available for purchase and help support the event. Many thanks to our sponsors, our great team of volunteers who spend months preparing for the big day, and to our day of event volunteers!

As always, don’t miss Ezra’s amazing kosher hotdogs and hamburgers at LB Kosher Grill… and this year, you can buy your own pickles.

This is a great opportunity to learn about the great non-profit organizations that help make up the greater Boulder Jewish community.  About a third of the groups are synagogues/faith communities.  Another quarter are education-based, for all ages (kids, families, youth, college, adult). Several groups are focused on Israel, ranging from Israel travel experiences to political action. Finally, there are community-wide and special interest groups including Mazon, a Jewish Response to Hunger (based in Los Angeles), Tuv Ha’Aretz (Boulder Jewish Community Supported Agriculture), Jewish Family Services , the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado and of course – the Boulder Jewish News.

Whether your interest is outdoors, indoors, local, global, historical, spiritual, artistic or gastronomic, there’s a group here ready to share your passion and fan the Jewish sparks in your life.

Got an iPhone or Android phone? Stay tuned for more ways to get involved this year! Organizations: if you would like to publicize what’s happening in your booth this year at the event – activities, games, etc – contact us

See you on June 6!

Need a mezuzah case? Find original, hand-made Judaica at one of the fine art booths along Pearl Street on Sunday, June 6 at the Boulder Jewish Festival. For a list of participating artists, click here. See you Sunday!

Get up-to-the-minute news about the Boulder Jewish Festival at http://boulderjewishfestival.org.   See you June 6 in Boulder!

Boys and girls from Boulder, Denver and around the country will be competing in Olympic-style games. Meet some of the athletes at our Kids Zone, and find out about volunteer opportunities.  Join the excitement!

Let the games begin with an Olympic march from the Main Stage to the Boulder Jewish Festival mini-Maccabi games Kid’s Zone from 11:30 am – 4:30. Preschool to 5th grade join us from 11:30 am to 3 pm. At 3 pm, the area becomes a giant GAGA pit for 6th grade thru high school. For more info about the JCC Maccabi Games – click here!

By joining the Big Tent Judaism Coalition, Boulder Jewish Festival has committed to serving all Jewish households and embracing the diversity that comprises today’s Jewish community. Congregation Bonai Shalom, Pardes Levavot, and Beth Ami are also members of the coalition, as well as Denver groups including Judaism Your Way and Jewish Mosaic.

“Our Biblical forebears Abraham and Sarah opened their tent on all four sides and welcomed all who approached,”

says JOI Executive Director Rabbi Kerry Olitzky. “It’s time that we as a Jewish community follow their example and welcome all who cast their lot with the Jewish community into our midst.”   The Big Tent Judaism Coalition provides an online directory of organizations committed to welcoming and including any individual or Jewish household—including the increasing numbers of interfaith couples and families, Jews of color and multiracial families, Jews-by-choice and members of the LGBT population—interested in engaging with the Jewish community. The site will also provide updated information about Jewish holidays and practices, as well as other resources that will help them navigate the Jewish community. For the communal professionals and lay leaders working inside member organizations of the Big Tent Judaism Coalition, the initiative offers networking, consultation, and best practices for welcoming those individuals and families.

More information about Big Tent Judaism is available online at www.BigTentJudaism.org.

The Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI)— is an independent, national, trans-denominational organization reaching out to unengaged and intermarried Jewish families, and helping the organized Jewish community better welcome them in. JOI conducts research, runs programs, and serves as a national training institution and network for outreach professionals, guiding and supporting innovative outreach in communities throughout North America.

Nice recognition from our friends in Philadephia!  Thank you! “Boulder’s active Jewish community also puts on an annual Jewish Festival (www.boulderjewishfestival.org), celebrating its culture, arts and cuisine. Save the date now for next year’s festival on June 6.”

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