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EDUCATION & CULTURE
Leland Huttner is a man on a mission: To teach the Holocaust, and to ensure that its lessons are not forgotten.
It is a mission with a two-fold objective: To create a beautiful physical place where the lessons of the Holocaust can be taught and learned, and to support and enable an educator to teach those lessons to the generations of the future.
And it is a mission with a very specific focus: the University of Denver.
EDUCATION & CULTURE
ON a summer’s day in 1999, Prof. Joshua Jacobson raised his hands to conduct the Zamir Chorale of Boston in a sunlit courtyard at Auschwitz. No one else was around. “For many of us,” Jacobson gently reminded the ensemble, “this is how we pray.”
So they prayed. Voices soared in unison until one by one they broke under the unbearable weight of history. The conductor continued moving his arms as tears lodged inarticulate stones in countless throats.
“People ...
EDUCATION & CULTURE
MICHAEL Solomon really doesn’t mind if you don’t understand his paintings.
Lots of people don’t, he says. But they still enjoy them.
He also doesn’t mind if you understand them in ways different from his own.
He points to one red-dominated painting. One might see a rose within its abstract forms, he agrees. Others might see violence. Or passion.Last Updated ( Thursday, 09 August 2012 09:52 )
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ONCE upon a time — until very recently, actually — the Denver Jewish community had something called the Community Talmud Torah.
Hundreds of Denver Jewish kids passed through its classes in the 27 years that it existed. Meeting on Tuesday nights, they learned the fundamentals of Judaism, Jewish holidays, basic Hebrew, rudimentary Torah — all the foundational lessons that constitute what Jewish educators have long called supplemental or religious school.
Then the CTT came to an end.
Facin...Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 August 2011 10:03 )
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PICTURE a typical peaceful afternoon on Denver’s 16th Street Mall.
The sun is shining, pedestrians are entering and leaving shops and eateries, shuttles are making their way up and down the shade-dappled thoroughfare.
And then . . .
Something happens . . .
It wouldn’t really be fair to reveal precisely what it was that happens on that fictional Denver afternoon, for the element of surprise is crucial to its effect.Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:21 )
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