IJN Cast

Shana Goldberg on the Boulder SJP’s endorsement of the Boulder firebomber.Benjamin Abravenel, author of a new novel, The Past, Again: ”Anti-Semitism is the only hatred that comes from the right and left.”

Audio from Sunday’s Boulder Jewish Festival and Memorial — Survivor Michelle Goldman reflecting on a year later. IJN Associate Editor Larry Hankin on covering the festival last year, and this year’s memorial.Plus, Anyu Silverman of Repair the World on its Serve 250 initiative: “The imperative of service is a way to make real change in our local communities.”

Boulder Attack Retrospection — Survivor Rachel Halpern fled Poland in 1969 for a safer life as a Jew in the US shares her reflections one year later. Plus Chany Scheiner of Chabad of Boulder on Jewish life one year later.

‘You could see out the window from the house, to the crematorium and the gas chamber,’ Elliott Broidy, who helped turn the house of an Auschwitz commandant into the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization, tells the IJN Cast. ‘The house had a swimming pool and garden. Hitler and these guys would sit with the Commandant and smoke cigars and it’s mind boggling. We thought we could use it as a symbol, and we took control right before the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz.’Plus part of country music singer Eric Church’s commencement address at UNC, where he shared six life lessons corresponding to the six strings of a guitar.

‘It’s the end of an era . . . He was a compassionate and passionate guy,’ reflects Barry Curtiss-Lusher on the passing of Abe Foxman, former ADL chief. Penny Nisson on the origin of her life as an artist, and Dr. David Bryfman of the Jewish Education Project.

Audio testimony from the Boulder courthouse today, where the man who attacked Run For Their Lives last year in Boulder plead guilty and was sentenced in court. Prior to sentencing, District Court Chief Judge Nancy Salomone said: “I conclude that the most serious sentences available under the law are the appropriate ones.”Plus, what happened when a Torah was mistakenly dropped at the HEA during services on May 2; and Mitch Siegler of THINC joins the IJN Cast to discuss a legal complaint lodged against the national teachers’ union.

‘Education is the number one way forward . . . I believe that the average person does not really understand the lived experience of Jewish students, even the average administrator,’ says Hillel International’s Jon Falk, whose op-ed appears on page 4 of this week’s IJN this week.Plus, My Two Shekels!