Upcoming Events

In anticipation of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival’s Latin dance party following the closing night screening of “Mamboniks,” ACE offers an opportunity to learn the basics of Latin dance or brush up on your moves. No...

Abstract and Layered Watercolors with Alix Christian
Date: February 20, 2019
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Have you wanted to experiment with watercolor or push your practice into a deeper and more layered and abstract direction? We’ll be letting go, taking risks, and trusting the process. Instructor Alix Christian will introduce you to...

In anticipation of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival’s Latin dance party following the closing night screening of “Mamboniks,” ACE offers an opportunity to learn the basics of Latin dance or brush up on your moves. No...
Art Exhibit Opening with Patricia Aaron and Miguel Edwards
Date: February 28, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Patricia Aaron, an established Denver artist, has been featured in numerous museum, gallery, university, and airport exhibitions. Recent acquisitions of Aaron’s work include: Metropolitan Homes Corporate Collection, (Denver CO),...

music@theJ - "Celebrating Sondheim: A Little Night Music"
Date: March 3, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Time: 7:00 pm
NEW DATE!!!! From his West Side Story debut, Stephen Sondheim quickly became the reigning musical theater genius of his generation, and has been described by New York Times theater critic Frank Rich as "now the greatest and perhaps...

In anticipation of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival’s Latin dance party following the closing night screening of “Mamboniks,” ACE offers an opportunity to learn the basics of Latin dance or brush up on your moves. No...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael"
Date: March 8, 2019
Time: 10:30 am
Time: 10:30 am
The preeminent film critic of the 20th century used her influence to shape modern cinema as well as our understanding of it, as revealed in this clip-filled homage to the movies Kael championed.
When Pauline Kael joined the New Yorker in...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Scaffolding"
Date: March 8, 2019
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
A charismatic literature teacher and a strict, working-class father vie for influence over an Israeli teenager, who finds himself torn between the two very different role models.
A likeable but impulsive teen troublemaker with obvious...

Oscillating between comedy and tragedy, this odd-couple road movie finds two aging men looking for closure from the Holocaust through an unlikely friendship.
An elderly Holocaust survivor played by Jiří Menzel (famed Czech...

As a young Israeli couple build their dream home, the foundation of their marriage begins to crumble, challenging them to find the true meaning of home and to focus on the challenge of building a life together.
At what exact moment in...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Heading Home: Team Israel"
Date: March 10, 2019
Time: 11:00 am
Time: 11:00 am
This stirring story of sports, patriotism, and personal growth charts the underdog journey of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic.
Ranked 41st in the world, and compared by ESPN to...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Heading Home: Team Israel"
Date: March 10, 2019
Time: 1:30 pm
Time: 1:30 pm
This stirring story of sports, patriotism, and personal growth charts the underdog journey of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic.
Ranked 41st in the world, and compared by ESPN to...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Sustainable Nation"
Date: March 10, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Time: 7:00 pm
Discover how three Israeli innovators are taking valuable lessons learned in water-poor Israel to bring clean, safe water to millions of people around the world - from using plants to clean waste water to a computer system that monitors...

Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) plays a recent widower who forms a clandestine partnership with a community college biology professor (Matthew Broderick) as he struggles to find religious solace while obsessing over the physical...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "When the Smoke Clears: A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope"
Date: March 11, 2019
Time: 1:30 pm
Time: 1:30 pm
Young Israeli soldiers whose injuries leave them fighting for the strength to live finding meaning by reaching out to those in need, discovering that what didn’t kill them really did make them stronger.
Gil, Ofer, and Elad are young...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Mekonen: The Journey of an African Jew"
Date: March 11, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm
Time: 4:00 pm
Once a young shepherd in Africa and now a commander in the Israeli Defense Forces, Mekonen strives to find his place as an African-Israeli Jew defending his new homeland and its liberal values of democracy, freedom, and equality.
Mekonen...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Who Will Write Our History"
Date: March 11, 2019
Time: 6:30 pm
Time: 6:30 pm
Producer Nancy Spielberg and director Roberta Grossman, the team behind “Above and Beyond” (BJFF 2016), return with an inspirational story of humanity and heroism in the Warsaw Ghetto.
“Will the Germans write our...

Oscillating between comedy and tragedy, this odd-couple road movie finds two aging men looking for closure from the Holocaust through an unlikely friendship.
An elderly Holocaust survivor played by Jiří Menzel (famed Czech...

Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) plays a recent widower who forms a clandestine partnership with a community college biology professor (Matthew Broderick) as he struggles to find religious solace while obsessing over the physical...

As a young Israeli couple build their dream home, the foundation of their marriage begins to crumble, challenging them to find the true meaning of home and to focus on the challenge of building a life together.
At what exact moment in...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael"
Date: March 13, 2019
Time: 3:30 pm
Time: 3:30 pm
The preeminent film critic of the 20th century used her influence to shape modern cinema as well as our understanding of it, as revealed in this clip-filled homage to the movies Kael championed.
When Pauline Kael joined the New Yorker in...
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Yehudis Fishman will be honored at the annual Boulder Jewish Film Festival Centerpiece, which features a screening of “93Queen,” the inspiring new documentary about Ruchie Freier, an Orthodox force of nature who has triumphed...

The irrepressible comedienne’s story is told by Gilda Radner herself, in copious interviews, along with recently discovered interviews and home movies, creating a memorable portrait of a beloved comic genius.
Laughter and tears are...
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Explore the Israeli soul through the galleries, storerooms, staff, and visitors of Tel Aviv’s astounding Israel Museum, the nation’s most important - and illuminating - cultural institution.
What does the famed Israel Museum...

Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) plays a recent widower who forms a clandestine partnership with a community college biology professor (Matthew Broderick) as he struggles to find religious solace while obsessing over the physical...

The capture of Adolph Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) by a team of Mossad agents is superbly depicted in this uncommonly intelligent 2018 Hollywood thriller starring Oscar Isaac.
In 1960, a team of crack Mossad agents, many Holocaust survivors...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "Scaffolding"
Date: March 15, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
A charismatic literature teacher and a strict, working-class father vie for influence over an Israeli teenager, who finds himself torn between the two very different role models.
A likeable but impulsive teen troublemaker with obvious...
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Explore the Israeli soul through the galleries, storerooms, staff, and visitors of Tel Aviv’s astounding Israel Museum, the nation’s most important - and illuminating - cultural institution.
What does the famed Israel Museum...

The astounding story of a former Nazi’s rise to post-war power, and the lies, secrets, and betrayals that led to the incredible injustice.
Filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who participated in protests against Kurt Waldheim during his...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival - "What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael"
Date: March 16, 2019
Time: 7:30 pm
Time: 7:30 pm
The preeminent film critic of the 20th century used her influence to shape modern cinema as well as our understanding of it, as revealed in this clip-filled homage to the movies Kael championed.
When Pauline Kael joined the New Yorker in...

Oscillating between comedy and tragedy, this odd-couple road movie finds two aging men looking for closure from the Holocaust through an unlikely friendship.
An elderly Holocaust survivor played by Jiří Menzel (famed Czech...

The capture of Adolph Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) by a team of Mossad agents is superbly depicted in this uncommonly intelligent 2018 Hollywood thriller starring Oscar Isaac.
In 1960, a team of crack Mossad agents, many Holocaust survivors...

The irrepressible comedienne’s story is told by Gilda Radner herself, in copious interviews, along with recently discovered interviews and home movies, creating a memorable portrait of a beloved comic genius.
Laughter and tears are...

2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival Closing Night - "The Mamboniks"
Date: March 17, 2019
Time: 6:30 pm
Time: 6:30 pm
Closing night at the Dairy on March 17 takes viewers back to the glory days of Latin music in America, when urban Jews went wild for the exotic rhythms of tropical lands. “The Mamboniks” revels in those heady days when Jewish...

Screening with Talk Back by Yehudis Fishman - "Unorthodox"
Date: April 1, 2019
Time: 2:00 pm
Time: 2:00 pm
This unusually revealing documentary began in 2004, when Anna Wexler – who grew up in the Modern Orthodox Jewish community – and Nadja Oertelt were undergraduates studying neuroscience at MIT. It took the filmmakers nine years...

Starring Larry Bangs and Katherine Campbell, Directed by Mark Read
Join VIVA for a staged reading of playwright A.R. Gurney's haunting testament to the power of love. Melissa and Andrew are childhood friends whose romance spans fifty...

Two Jews, Three Opinions - Conversations About Israel
Date: April 10, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Boulder Israel Engagement Team (BIET) is proud to present Two Jews, Three Opinions - Conversations About Israel
Israel is many things to many people. In this series of learning and discussions sessions, we will examine the vision versus...

music@theJ - "Yuval Ron: Mystical Music of the Middle East"
Date: April 14, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Time: 7:00 pm
The Israeli award-winning world music artist, composer, educator, peace activist, and record producer returns to Boulder for a concert of ancient musical wisdom.
Sunday, April 14 | 7 pm | $25 in advance, $30 at the door | REGISTRATION...

Lunch and Learn - Bruce Borowsky: A Lens Focused on Adventure
Date: April 25, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm
Time: 12:00 pm
The award-winning photographer and filmmaker will share a sampling of spectacular images and talk about the evolution of his artistic career from being the Chief Photographer of the City of Miami Beach in the mid-1980s, to working for...
Yom HaShoah Program Lunch and Learn - "Buried Rivers: A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust"
Date: May 1, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm
Time: 12:00 pm
Author Talk with Ellen Korman Mains
After the Holocaust, how do we not lose faith in each other—or in ourselves? In 2006, Ellen Korman Mains began a series of life-changing journeys to Poland to reconcile her own family’s...
Yom Hazikaron: Honoring Israel's Fallen Soldiers
Date: May 7, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Sponsored by the Israeli-American Council (IAC)
Please join us for an Israeli Memorial Day ceremony commemorating the personal stories of friends and relatives of Colorado residents who fell in Israeli wars and terror attacks. We look...

Israel Independence Day Community Celebration sponsored by the Boulder Israel Engagement Team (BIET), a partnership between the Boulder JCC and JEWISHcolorado.
Activities for all ages including programs for adults, live music, Israeli...
Art Exhibit Opening with Chloe Hedden & Messinger Gallery Dedication
Date: May 16, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The exhibit will be available for viewing May 16 - September 5 during regular JCC hours.
Art Exhibit Opening Thursday, May 16 | 5:30 - 7:30 pm | Conversation with the artists at 6:30 pm | REGISTRATION COMING SOON...