In Colorado's Congressional District 8, Republican incumbent Gabe Evans is facing a challenge from Democratic State Sen. Manny Rutinel. The ethnically and socio-economically diverse district is a toss up.

I have published three books about rabbis who were the Torah leaders in our generation, yet I always hesitated to write about the local Torah leader in Denver, a giant of our generation, the late Rabbi Israel Kagan.

Denver’s Rabbi Kagan Israel Meir Hakohen Kagan — the dean, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim, whose soul ascended upward this week —bore the precise name of the Chofetz Chaim. And he was held in that same esteem in our community. Respected and beloved — universally.

An intermountain road trip led to Jewish communities in Pueblo, Colorado; Trinidad, Colorado; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Santa Fe, NM; and Los Alamos, NM.

Jackson, Wyoming has its first-ever dedicated synagogue and Jewish community center — and the state’s first synagogue building in over 70 years. For over 30...

In 2015, while visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya came face-to-face with a WW II artifact that moved him deeply.It was a red cloth triangle — cut from a Nazi flag — embroidered with the names of a few dozen female prisoners at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.