Chris Leppek
IJN Assistant Editor | ijnews@aol.com
Unmarked graves, unmarked $100,000
Chris LeppekJul 20, 2017
Sarsour promises a Denver cemetery big bucks —maybe, maybe not One might think that combining the recently controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour with...
J Street joins JCRC; mixed reactions
Chris LeppekJun 29, 2017
J Street has finally arrived. Last week, in its second try at membership in the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Israel-focused and liberal-leaning activist...
Meet Har HaShem’s Rabbi Greene
Chris LeppekJun 22, 2017
The first full week of June was a busy one for Rabbi Fred Greene and the congregation he leads, Boulder’s Har HaShem. He called for congregants to join him for a vigil...
You’re 80? Meet Dr. Herzl Melmed
Chris LeppekJun 22, 2017
The first question of the interview — “What is it with you and bicycles?” — makes Dr. Herzl Melmed laugh. Whippet-thin, agile and looking far more fit than his...
Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Four Denverites remember
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Clara Elefant My husband had a sabbatical coming in 1962 so we...
Whither Israel, post-1967?
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
Landmark anniversaries — such as next Wednesday’s commemoration of 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem — are great opportunities to gaze at the past...
Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
Twenty seconds. That’s the average length of time a resident of Sderot, Israel has between the sounding of a siren, warning of an incoming rocket strike, and reaching...
Swastikas at DU; police investigating possible hate crime
Chris LeppekMay 11, 2017
Although swastikas and the letters “KKK” were scratched into the surfaces of six cars on the same block as a Denver Hillel house last week, the Anti-Defamation...
Why has JNF quadrupled its campaign? Meet Boaz Meir
Chris LeppekApr 27, 2017
Next time you’re playing a casual game of word association, throw “Jewish National Fund” into the mix. If participants are actively Jewish, or know a few things...
The new look at the ‘Deli’
Chris LeppekMar 23, 2017
Customer service has always been Joshua Horowitz’s thing. His first job, when still a teenager, was working in the kitchen for a New York caterer. Soon thereafter, he...
