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Andrea Jacobs

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John Fielder: Why the outdoors matters

PHOTOGRAPHER John Fielder unwinds in a chair at his gallery on Santa Fe Drive, accepting congratulations from lingering patrons who seem unable to leave the exotic...

Pockets of hope at Occupy Denver in Civic Center Park

DENVER — A freezing wind and rain blow hard Monday on Civic Center Park, where 30 to 35 people eat, sip coffee and huddle together on the one-month anniversary of...

Forever 18…when it comes to music

Paul Epstein — 6’4”, wavy white hair flowing past his shoulders — bends slightly to greet his guests in the back hallway of Twist and Shout, Denver’s massive,...

Documentary on Sholem Aleichem ‘laughs in darkness’

“No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you” — Sholem Aleichem I HAVE never read the works of the Yiddish master […]

9/11 – I remember, and I wasn’t there

I woke up late the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Instead of switching on the TV to catch the national news — a time-honored tradition until that hurried moment —...

Media attention spurs action for Somalia; Jewish groups try to reach out

The Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, chaired by the Joint Distribution Committee, has received slightly over $20,000 in donations for the famine in East Africa that...

Eternal friends? Afterlife on Facebook — what people are doing, what rabbis think

ON April 11, 2011, at 12:02 a.m., Kiri Basner-Churches posted the following comment on her grandmother Anita Churches’ Facebook page — nine months after Churches died...

Dorothy Feldman Cohen: Regal repository of Denver Jewish history

Feldman Cohen, 94, sits on a high-backed purple chair in her living room. A regal repository of Denver Jewish history, she politely dismisses the spotlight enveloping...

Polio Journals: Its devastating effects on a Jewish woman and her family

A week after returning from her mother’s funeral in 1985, Anne Gross received a package at her home in Denver. She carried it to the kitchen table, opened it and...

Would a bris ban stand up in court?

L. MARTIN Nussbaum, a Colorado Springs-based attorney, suggests that the proposed San Francisco ban on circumcision flies in the face of constitutional guarantees and...