Friday, April 19, 2024 -
Print Edition
Avatar photo
Andrea Jacobs

IJN Senior Writer | [email protected]

How to approach mental illness

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

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

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

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’

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

ISRAEL is the beneficiary of a new bill approved by the Colorado legislature that expands the state treasurer’s scope to invest in double-A rated Israeli bonds. Gov....

Arthur Gilbert: Holocaust art is ‘Rolodex of emotional snapshots’

DU’s 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’

Toddlers scamper to preschool classes under the breathless guidance of their teachers at BMH-BJ: The Denver Synagogue. “I’m two!” announces a boy. “Two!” concurs...

From Israel to Colorado Springs: Music is a prayerful dance

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

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION A PAGE 10 ABOUT 16 years ago, Temple Sinai’s Rabbi Raymond Zwerin got a phone call “out of the clear blue sky” from a curious, elderly,...