A Jewish museum for everybody
Andrea JacobsFeb 23, 2012
AN idea either evolves or goes the way of dusty death. Take the Mizel Museum. What began 30 years ago in a display case at BMH has transcended space, time […]
Retirement? It isn’t what it used to be
Andrea JacobsJan 26, 2012
There once was a dream called retirement. After 40-odd years of work, Americans would live nicely off the principle of their savings, see the world and visit their...
Coming to Boulder, a $20 million facility
Andrea JacobsJan 05, 2012
JONATHAN Lev, hired as executive director of the Boulder JCC in 2010, is turning laid-back, free-fall stereotypes of Boulder Jewry on their head one dollar at a time ...
Marriage meets Genesis
Andrea JacobsDec 15, 2011
CHANUKAH EDITION SECTION E PAGE 12 ITS not uncommon for Jewish authors to scour Genesis for guidelines on how to establish healthy and avoid dysfunctional ...
Consuming 100 sufganiyot — for charity
Andrea JacobsDec 01, 2011
IN 2009, Elie Klein placed a gentlemans wager with two neighbors in Bet Shemesh, Israel, to see how many sufganiyot (deep fried, jelly-filled donuts) they could...
Is your blood redder than hers?
Andrea JacobsNov 24, 2011
ON Feb. 4, 2010, Fran Waldman was drinking her morning coffee when the doctor called to give her the results of a battery of tests. She was 62. He said […]
At GA, the business of Jerusalem
Andrea JacobsNov 10, 2011
FORGET what you hear about Orthodox supremacy in the Holy City and clashes in the street, Jerusalems Mayor Nir Barkat told an audience at the GA Sunday, Nov. 6. We...
For Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff, the truth is compelling
Andrea JacobsNov 10, 2011
IN 2000, Stacy Schiff was in her ninth month of pregnancy and confined to bed rest when the telephone began ringing incessantly. Exhausted, she couldnt be bothered....
At GA, general holds court
Andrea JacobsNov 10, 2011
AS journalists and GA delegates converge upon the 16Mix watering hole at the Sheraton Hotel Sunday evening, Aluf Benn observes the commotion with eagle eyes and a...
Jews in Colorado? Yes!
Andrea JacobsNov 04, 2011
HUMAN memory wavers like fickle candlelight across the mind, obscuring faces once adored, illuminating others hardly known. Kaleidoscopic images a favorite toy, a...
