Today's Life
YAD, a community program of the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado and The Young Adult Professionals Council, will present the annual Be There conference for Jewish adults in their 20s’, 30’s and early 40’s on Tuesday, April 5, 5:30-9 p.m., at the Pinnacle Club in the Grand Hyatt Denver.
“The Maven” for this event is Kelli Trotsky Pfaff, creator of Be There.
Chairs are Michelle Nikolayeysky, Adam Burstein and Alan Reifler.
The event will feature the film, “Sderot: Rock in the Red Zone,” by director Laura Bialis/
When Robert Lederman moved to Denver 20 years ago, he brought with him two things that say a great deal about the man: his distinctive Worcester, Massachusetts accent and his family’s old world “Water Street” recipe for hamantaschen.
Lederman is a third-generation baker, having grown up in his family’s bake shop where he learned how to bake, and how to run a bakery.
In 1976, he moved to Florida where he owned a bakery before working for Publix supermarkets in bakery management for 14 y...
FROM 1987 to 1997, dozens of volunteers and members of the Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry advocated for Soviet Jews, who were being persecuted in the former Soviet Union. The group helped resettle approximately 250 Soviet Jews in the Boulder area.
During that time period, Gal Beckerman celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Los Angeles and participated in the Soviet Twinning program, where activists matched 13-year-old American Jews with Jewish children in the Soviet Union, who were denied this rite of...
FOR more than 50 years, Marian Kolodziej never spoke publicly of the suffering he witnessed as a teenager. His aging artist’s hand never expressed the painful emotions he tried so hard to suppress.
But after suffering a major stroke in 1993, Kolodziej, then 71, began drawing images in an attempt to facilitate his recovery.
The result, more than 300 pen and pencil drawings depicting his five years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, are captured in the documentary, “The Labyrin...