For the first time, a community sukkah will be built in downtown Denver at 17th and California streets at the Plaza Courtyard.
The sukkah will be open Thursday, Oct. 16, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. with refreshments provided.
The community sukkah is a project of Chabad of South Denver.
According to David Foster of Foster, Graham, Milstein, Miller and Calisher, “The sukkah is being built to share the spirit of Sukkot with the downtown business community.”
Last Updated ( Friday, 10 October 2008 06:05 )
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Before it even had a chance to walk, the new CU Jewish Studies Dept. is flying. “I actually didn’t get it,” said Dr. David Shneer, the director of the fledgling program, about the interest in Jewish studies.
“Let me tell you how interested [students] are,” he continued in front of a group of university and community members at CU’s chancellor’s home.
“When I got here four weeks ago, [Prof. Paul Shankman] handed me a stack of 15 students who were registered in the certificate program. As of today, there are 47.”
With that statement, 80 pairs of hands filled the backyard with fervent applause.
The mid-week gathering officially introduced Shneer and the Rabbi Daniel and Ida Goldberger Jewish Studies Program to the community.
Last Updated ( Friday, 03 October 2008 09:21 )
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In the late morning of erev Rosh Hashanah this past Monday, about 40 children ranging in age from two-and-a-half to 10 years old embarked on a field trip behind Bonai Shalom in Boulder.
Oblivious to the crisp chill in the autumn air, the kids ran back and forth between sun and shade before being corralled by Shoshana Krongold Bilavsky, the head of the Boulder Jewish Day School and the field trip leader.
“Today we are learning about what?” she asked the cluster of kids and their parents.
“Rosh Hashanah!” they yelled in unison.
Last Updated ( Friday, 03 October 2008 09:25 )
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Shana and Rabbi Nachum Wasosky grew up in Pittsburgh. For Shana, Colorado was always a second home because she came here with her parents, Dr. Mark and Ida May, and her six siblings, twice yearly, spending winters skiing in Vail Valley and summers hiking in the Rockies.
After college, Nachum and Shana married and spent their first two years of marriage in Jerusalem.
When Denver’s Aish-Ahavas Yisrael was looking for a warm and dynamic,young rabbinic couple to join its staff in 2002, the Wasoskys seemed the perfect fit.
Plus, Shana’s parents, the May’s, were then living in Colorado full time.
Upon leaving Israel for Denver in 2002, Shana’s sister, a resident of Ra’anana, Israel, was crying at the airport at the thought of losing her only sibling living in Israel to a long distance relationship.
Last Updated ( Friday, 12 September 2008 08:35 )
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B’nai Butte is led by spiritual leader Cantor Robbi Sherwin, who commutes from her home in Austin, Texas, to provide guidance for the 50 members of the congregation.
The congregation’s co-presidents are Tammi Gitin and Bruce Alpern.
B’nai Butte is currently unaffiliated. It meets in a different home each week for Friday night services, and for High Holidays it meets at the Queen of All Saints church.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:57 )
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