How to approach mental illness
Andrea JacobsJul 18, 2013
When a baby takes its first steps a normal evolutionary act parents often feel they are witnessing a miracle. The world stops as all eyes stare at the awkward...
Osi Sladek, Holocaust survivor, and the 98-year-old Nazi
Andrea JacobsJul 04, 2013
A FEW months ago, Holocaust survivor Osi Sladek and his wife Selma were in Toronto visiting his sister when a news report surfaced about Laszlo Csatary, accused of...
Rabbi Morris, rebel with a cause
Andrea JacobsJul 04, 2013
TEMPLE Micah, the progressive Jewish congregation that challenges the norm, is moving into a larger rented space at Park Hill United Methodist Church (PHUMC) in the Park...
Three decades on, ‘hobby’ is big business
Andrea JacobsJun 13, 2013
Affair with Flair, the event-planning boutique run by Lisa Cook and Leslie Heins, is now in its 31st year of making memories for families, corporations and non-profits....
BRCA and cancer: The ‘Jewish gene’
Andrea JacobsMay 30, 2013
In the winter of 2003, Nana Zeligman-Sommers noticed she was urinating frequently and felt very tired. Attributing her fatigue to being the single parent of a teenager,...
Colorado can now invest in Israel bonds
Andrea JacobsMay 09, 2013
ISRAEL is the beneficiary of a new bill approved by the Colorado legislature that expands the state treasurers scope to invest in double-A rated Israeli bonds. Gov....
Arthur Gilbert: Holocaust art is ‘Rolodex of emotional snapshots’
Andrea JacobsMay 06, 2013
DUs Prof. Arthur Gilbert, whose demeanor and attire evoke Zorba the Greek, interrupts the early morning quiet at the Merage and Allon Hillel Center with a sustained...
Rabbi Ben Greenberg: ‘Room at the table for all’
Andrea JacobsApr 25, 2013
Toddlers scamper to preschool classes under the breathless guidance of their teachers at BMH-BJ: The Denver Synagogue. Im two! announces a boy. Two! concurs...
From Israel to Colorado Springs: Music is a prayerful dance
Andrea JacobsApr 11, 2013
Ben-Amots was just six when he dared touch the new piano in his Haifa home. It was love at first sound — and they’ve been married ever since. Fifty-two years later,...
Colorado’s Jewish interest-free loan society
Andrea JacobsMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION A PAGE 10 ABOUT 16 years ago, Temple Sinais Rabbi Raymond Zwerin got a phone call out of the clear blue sky from a curious, elderly,...