Chris Leppek
IJN Assistant Editor | ijnews@aol.com
Plot against Temple Emanuel in Pueblo thwarted
Chris LeppekNov 07, 2019
The peace and quiet usually enjoyed by Pueblo’s tiny Temple Emanuel synagogue was shattered this week with news of the arrest of a Pueblo man — a self-described...
VIP New Faces: Rebecca Otis Leder
Chris LeppekNov 07, 2019
relationships and making connections â in both personal and professional contexts â is what Rebecca Otis Leder is all about. Her varied and eclectic â and...
VIP New Faces: Sally Hammer
Chris LeppekNov 07, 2019
Hammer received her BS in Nutritional Sciences from Penn State in 2013 and completed her dietetic internship at Virginia Tech. She has a certificate in weight management...
Clean Speech Colorado launches in November
Chris LeppekOct 17, 2019
November, right between the High Holidays and Chanukah, is usually not the most Jewishly active month of the year, but 2019 will be different, at least in Colorado. The...
When a fire consumes a village, it’s complicated to rebuild
Chris LeppekSep 26, 2019
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5780 SECTION A PAGE 12 the morning of May 23, 2019, residents of Mevo Modiâim in Israel smelled smoke and knew that a fire had been spotted in...
Incident at Cherry Creek High
Chris LeppekSep 19, 2019
The Arapahoe County Sheriff is investigating an anti-Semitic Snapchat post made last weekend, allegedly involving four students from Cherry Creek High School. According...
An Israeli community struggle to respond to a murder
Chris LeppekAug 15, 2019
His rabbi would like the world to know that Dvir Sorek was not just a name. The 19-year-old yeshiva student was not just a statistic, yet another casualty in the...
Social media and young minds
Chris LeppekAug 15, 2019
to gauge the impact of social media? A quantum leap in communications? A tectonic paradigm shift in human interaction? An unprecedented sea change in access to...
Goodstein’s latest: Denver Public Schools
Chris LeppekAug 15, 2019
One might think that after writing umpteen books on Denver history, Phil Goodstein might choose something simple or one-dimensional for his next project — and one...
Elder statesman speaks: Gov. Richard D. Lamm
Chris LeppekJul 25, 2019
As perhaps the leading figure in the last half century of Colorado politics, Richard D. Lamm has become an elder statesman. The IJN thought it opportune to get his...
