Chris Leppek
IJN Assistant Editor | ijnews@aol.com
Synagogues work to create a safe space
Chris LeppekNov 01, 2018
Amidst the avalanche of emotions in the wake of a tragedy on the scale of last week’s mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, fear might be the most immediately...
VIP New Faces: Jessica Zalkin
Chris LeppekOct 18, 2018
her group, recently affiliated with Denver’s eXp Realty, Jessica Zalkin is earning good reviews as a broker with a keen eye on the metro area’s ever-growing and...
VIP New Faces: Rabbi Menachem Lehrfield
Chris LeppekOct 18, 2018
he became the founding director of the Jewish Outreach Initiative in Denver seven years ago, Rabbi Menachem Lehrfield has become a familiar face amid the vanguard of...
VIP New Faces: Charlie Miller
Chris LeppekOct 18, 2018
-educated Charlie Miller co-founded the Off-Center program at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 2010 and has since become its curator, charting the course for...
VIP New Faces: Josh Yeddis
Chris LeppekOct 18, 2018
Yeddis is a broker associate with RE/MAX Masters Millennium in Greenwood Village, working in partnership with his mother Fran Yeddis as part of the Yeddis Group. He has...
Governor’s race: Polis vs. Stapleton
Chris LeppekOct 11, 2018
With Colorado’s gubernatorial election less than a month away, the leading candidates are finally meeting face-to-face, laying out the political courses they hope to...
Temple Aaron: historic synagogue saved — for now
Chris LeppekSep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 12 of Temple Aaron’s demise are — to paraphrase Mark Twain — greatly exaggerated. The historic synagogue in Trinidad, an...
Seidenfeld brings new excitement to Yeshiva Toras Chaim
Chris LeppekAug 09, 2018
a weekday afternoon and Rabbi Naftali Seidenfeld is doing an interview — the hard way. He’s obviously in the car and at least some of his children are riding along....
Major restructuring of Hillel of Colorado
Chris LeppekAug 09, 2018
largest Jewish student organization, the Hillel house at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been declared an independent entity, according to a joint statement...
Gerson leaves at the top of his game
Chris LeppekJul 19, 2018
a few days, when Rabbi Bernard Gerson walks away from the Rodef Shalom pulpit for the last time, a quarter century of rabbinical leadership in Denver will come to an...
