Chris Leppek
IJN Assistant Editor | ijnews@aol.com
‘We Launch’ connects Israel and the American midwest
Chris LeppekNov 29, 2018
CHANUKAH 5779 and falafel and intifada. That — and maybe the Bible — are pretty much what the average American Midwesterner knows about Israel, says Baruch HaLevi....
Catholic Ladino-play contains hidden Crypto-Jewish messages
Chris LeppekNov 29, 2018
years ago, when Anthony Garcia opened a small, leather-bound notebook — a cuaderno, as it is called by Hispanic Americans — he got a glimpse into a long hidden past....
Book review: ‘First Ladies of the Republic’
Chris LeppekNov 21, 2018
Colorado, Dr. Jeanne Abrams is best known as a historian and archivist with Jewish expertise, most notably as director of DU’s Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society...
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...
