Press Releases

Jewish Community Relations Council Responds to Anti-Israel Claims

(DENVER, November 27, 2023) – The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), part of JEWISHcolorado, is responding to repeated calls by anti-Israel groups to negatively impact the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Global Conference taking place in Denver Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2023. Read the full statement here, or below.   The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is an organization that includes representatives of 40

ADL Deeply Disturbed by Colorado State Lawmaker’s Disruption of Special Legislative Session

  Denver, CO, November 21, 2023 … The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is deeply disturbed that a Colorado state lawmaker attempted to redirect debate on a summer food program for students into a monologue on the Israel-Hamas war and then shouted down a Jewish member of the legislature attempting to respond to her remarks.   Colorado State Representative Elisabeth

Jewish Community Responds to Video of Imam’s Lesson to Young Students that Includes Antisemitic Tropes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Jewish Community Responds to Video of Imam’s Lesson to Young Students that Includes Antisemitic Tropes Denver CO, October 27, 2023 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), The Colorado Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and the Rocky Mountain Rabbis and Cantors (RMRC) express serious concern about a lesson taught by a Colorado Imam seen on video teaching young children

ADL Deeply Concerned About Harmful Statement Released by Denver Democratic Socialists of America

Denver, CO, October 16, 2023 … The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is deeply concerned by the extremely harmful and troubling statement released on Oct. 14 by the Denver chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The statement appears to justify the atrocious massacre by the terrorist organization Hamas in Israel. It lacks any basic human decency by failing to

ADL Welcomes Arrest of Alleged White Supremacist on Federal Weapons Possession Charges

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Denver, CO, May 24, 2023 … The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region welcomed the arrest of a 41-year-old Fremont County man on federal weapons charges for allegedly possessing weapons in violation of the law. According to the criminal complaint filed in federal court, the suspect is a self-avowed Nazi who expressed antisemitic conspiracies and planned to