In Colorado's Congressional District 8, Republican incumbent Gabe Evans is facing a challenge from Democratic State Sen. Manny Rutinel. The ethnically and socio-economically diverse district is a toss up.

Protagonists of the Iberian age included scholars, translators, mapmakers, instrument makers and pilots. Among them, one figure deserves particular remembrance near Columbus Day: Abraham Zacuto, a Jewish astronomer born in Salamanca around 1452.

Melat Kiros, Democratic candidate for Colorado Congressional District 1, told senior Politico reporter Dasha Burns on Oct. 18 that she condemns the Boulder bombing “at every juncture that I have the opportunity to.” Actually, Kiros has avoided a number of opportunities to condemn the attack, because she appears to be refusing to engage with her Jewish constituency.

An intermountain road trip led to Jewish communities in Pueblo, Colorado; Trinidad, Colorado; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Santa Fe, NM; and Los Alamos, NM.

Jackson, Wyoming has its first-ever dedicated synagogue and Jewish community center — and the state’s first synagogue building in over 70 years. For over 30...

In 2015, while visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya came face-to-face with a WW II artifact that moved him deeply.It was a red cloth triangle — cut from a Nazi flag — embroidered with the names of a few dozen female prisoners at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.