Chris Leppek
IJN Assistant Editor | ijnews@aol.com
When it comes to nonprofits, JNF is showing the way
Chris LeppekJan 24, 2019
it what you will — track record, performance rating, street cred — but when a business or non-profit does something right, people pay attention. The Denver-based...
Josh Goldin aiming to move up on the Buffs
Chris LeppekJan 03, 2019
Goldin’s moment of truth came on a sunny September afternoon in Lincoln, Nebraska. Memorial Stadium was, as always, filled to capacity — 85,000-plus fans cheering...
For Emanuel’s Rabbi Hyatt: holiness and pluralism
Chris LeppekDec 20, 2018
odds of a newly-minted rabbi — or any rabbi, for that matter — getting a pulpit position in his or her hometown must be staggeringly low. “I don’t think I even...
Where Denver day schools stand on vaccinations
Chris LeppekDec 06, 2018
It’s rare that Jewish organizations across the denominational spectrum in Denver — or anywhere else — find unanimity on anything, but on the subject of vaccination...
‘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...
