Jewish genealogy: Suddenly you have 50 cousins — how?
Andrea JacobsOct 25, 2018
submit a swab of your Jewish DNA to an online ancestry site and suddenly discover you have 50 new cousins in Denver alone. Accurate or exaggerated? “That...
VIP New Faces: David Gottlieb
Andrea JacobsOct 18, 2018
Gottlieb was born in 1988 in Boston, moved to Denver at age six and attended Denver Jewish Day School. He earned a BA magna cum laude in music composition and...
VIP New Faces: Rabbi Samuel Spector
Andrea JacobsOct 18, 2018
Spector, 30, is the senior rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake, Utah. Born in 1988 in Seattle, Wash., he majored in Judaic studies and minored in behavioral...
VIP New Faces: Josh Gold
Andrea JacobsOct 18, 2018
Gold graduated Cherry Creek High, earned a BA in technical journalism and public relations from CSU and an MA in non-profit management at Regis. He and his wife...
JTown, a new suburban address for ‘doing Jewish’
Andrea JacobsAug 30, 2018
, whose name evokes a dusty designationloin a Clint Eastwood Western, is attracting a steady stream of followers to its growing Jewish communal presence in Lone Tree....
Found in translation: Winner of Man Booker Prize lives in Denver
Andrea JacobsAug 09, 2018
Americans reading a Hebrew novel or any foreign-language book in English are oblivious to the fact that two people are responsible for this literary sojourn — the...
Emanuel’s Rabbi Black changes policy on performing intermarriages
Andrea JacobsJul 12, 2018
Joe Black of Temple Emanuel, the Rocky Mountain region’s largest Reform congregation, will now officiate at intermarriages for couples committed to creating a...
Dead Sea Scrolls rotated
Andrea JacobsJun 14, 2018
closing time at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 5. Volunteers exiting out of the service entrance deposit their keys and head home with the public...
Michaelson Jenet reflects on the Jewish values she brings to Colorado Legislature
Andrea JacobsJun 14, 2018
first thing Dafna Michaelson Jenet reaches for in her office at the Colorado State Capitol is a Chumash that underpins the cohesiveness of her personal and...
Who would you invite to your Shabbat table?
Andrea JacobsMay 17, 2018
2014, we have asked our readers to voice their reflections on what certain prayers mean to them for our Shavuot edition: “To you, G-d, silence is praise”; the...
