Passover 2024: Finding hope and joy, together

JFS Boulder and our volunteers helped nearly 200 older adults and JFS clients celebrate Passover. Seven volunteers helped pack and deliver 50 Kosher for Passover meals to Jewish adults in the area, three supplied hardboiled eggs and pans full of homemade charoset for seders, and 22 volunteers helped lead seders at 13 older adult communities, including two new partner facilities who look forward to working with us in the future.   

Thank you to ALL the volunteers who brought this holiday of hope to older Jewish adults in Boulder. Special thanks to B’ Mitzvah students and staff from Congregation Bonai Shalom. This outstanding, energetic and engaged group of young people helped lead the seder, serve the meal and engage with the people living at Golden West Senior Living, who were utterly delighted. 

If you would like to be notified of holiday volunteer opportunities, contact Tina at tkantor@jewisfamilyservice.org or 720.248.4608.  

Food suppliers and donors 

• Black Belly of Boulder (donated shank bones).

• Boulder JCC (Matzoh ball soup, which was made by chefs Miche Bacher and Amy Cramer and JCC volunteers). 

• East Side Kosher Deli (supplied Kosher for Passover meals for home-bound clients) 

• Lindsay’s Boulder Deli (Matzoh Ball soup at a generous discount for Golden West Seder meal) 

• Carolyn Bleicher and Paula Erez (provided hardboiled eggs) 

• Sherri Begleiter (provided homemade charoset) 

2024 Older Adult Community Seders 

• Balfour Lodge, Louisville 

• Brookdale Boulder Creek 

• Brookdale Meridian, Boulder 

• Brookdale North Boulder 

• Flatirons Terrace, Boulder 

• Frasier Meadows, Boulder 

• Golden West Senior Living, Boulder 

• MorningStar of Boulder 

• Sunrise Assisted Living at Flatirons, Broomfield 

• The Pearl at Boulder Creek (formerly Carillion) 

• The Academy University Hill, Boulder 

• The Peaks at Old Laramie Trail, Lafayette 

Volunteers 

• Lisa Benoit and her child 

• David Bernstein 

• Carolyn Bleicher 

• Diane Denenberg 

• Chrystal Eckman 

• Jim Edelman 

• Paula Erez 

• Rob Fineman 

• Alyce Kitt 

• Ed Kletzky 

• Rabbi Jamie Korngold 

• Joe Lukasik 

• Sheila Malcolm 

• Karla Reiss 

• Rebecca Sandmeyer 

• Katherine Schminky and her children 

• Amy Shaw 

• Hanna Shell 

• Susan Tessler 

• Eve Verderber 

• Dana Weinberger 

• Mary Ann Wilner 

• Kathy and Dan Winters

A Sweet Purim

Thank you to the following people for their help spreading Purim delight in March, too! 

• David Bernstein 

• Joyce Bograd 

• Sophie Englezos 

• Shira Finke and Megan Burmeister (CU Hillel staff) 

• Jenny Max 

• Sheila Malcolm 

• Kylie Roswell 

• Ellie Steele (CU Hillel intern) 

• Eve Verderber 

• Lisa Webber and HarHashem staff and congregants