Today's Life
The 26th annual Intermountain Jewish News-Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest is open for entries.
Deadline for entries in the contest is 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012.
IJN’s address is 1177 Grant St., Suite 200, Denver, CO 80203.
Since its inception, the contest, for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, has attracted and brought together children from all corners of the Jewish community. Through the years it has encouraged creativity and artistic expression of the fun aspects of Chanukah as well as its serious message.
Rabbi Ben Greenberg, the new spiritual leader at BMH-BJ, recently unveiled a new logo for the congregation.
Since he started at BMH-BJ, Rabbi Greenberg has been learning about the history of the congregation and its place in the Denver Jewish and general communities.
“For the past 116 years, we have always been what we are; we have always been ‘the Denver Synagogue,’” he said.
That slogan is incorporated into the new logo as part of the name of the congregation....
The day after Yom Kippur, while Jewish Denver was still in a post-repentance stupor, DAT Minyan spiritual leader Rabbi Asher Klein arrived at the IJN in exceptional, buoyant form.
Twenty-four hours ago he fasted, prayed and beseeched G-d’s forgiveness with his congregation in a crowded multipurpose room at DAT. This morning he smiles the giddy smile of a new father (for the fourth time).
The only time fatigue makes an appearance is when Klein mentions receiving an accounting “decree” fro...
A WORD of warning: Don’t tell Rabbi Tzvi Steinberg that Denver’s West Side is a Jewish ghost town.
He’ll set you straight on that point, and quickly.
Earlier this year, after the rabbi had already agreed to take the pulpit of Denver’s Congregation Zera Abraham — the last functional synagogue standing on the West Side — he overheard a conversation between two other people.
One of those speaking, who knew that Rabbi Steinberg had previously run a Jewish hospice, laughed and said tha...
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THERE are times when tragedy and loss can be the biggest motivators in life.
For 24-year-old Israeli Tom Peled, this was certainly the case. His father died of cancer in 2011 after an eight-year battle with the disease. “I didn’t have a goal or purpose. It was a hard time for all of us,” he said.
Peled realized that he needed a physical outlet to manage his grief. He embarked on a cycling journey through six European countries.
“It was a hard experience being...