B’nai B’rith heir apparent worked his way up from the bowling alley
Chris LeppekOct 25, 2012
GARY Saltzman began his Bnai Brith journey in the most humble and unremarkable of ways on the bowling alley. The Denver native who grew up on the East Side,...
Steinberg sees a bright future for West Side
Chris LeppekSep 20, 2012
word of warning: Don’t tell Rabbi Tzvi Steinberg that Denver’s West Side is a Jewish ghost town. He’ll set you straight on that point, and quickly. Earlier this...
How PTSD can transcend generations
Chris LeppekSep 20, 2012
This is most definitely a ghost story, but just as definitely is not about ghosts as they ordinarily come to mind. Instead of visitations of disembodied spirits,...
Sisters and survival: The saga of Ida and Doris
Chris LeppekSep 13, 2012
This is a tale of two sisters. Of their manifold tragedies and misfortunes and their rare good luck. Of their survival, not only of the Holocaust but the Blitz...
‘Reimagining’ Allied Jewish Federation into Colorado Jewish Foundation
Chris LeppekSep 13, 2012
ROSH HASHANAHSECTION A ABOUT a year from now, if all goes as planned, the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado will cease to exist. So will its symbiotic endowment arm,...
Holocaust instructions: a DU mission
Chris LeppekAug 09, 2012
EDUCATION & CULTURE Leland Huttner is a man on a mission: To teach the Holocaust, and to ensure that its lessons are not forgotten. It is a mission with a […]
Solomon reinvents original passion
Chris LeppekAug 09, 2012
EDUCATION & CULTURE MICHAEL Solomon really doesnt mind if you dont understand his paintings. Lots of people dont, he says. But they still enjoy them. He also...
IJN community report: Preventing the unthinkable
Chris LeppekAug 02, 2012
IT is a crime whose name, for a very long time, we dared not even speak. Most of us shudder when we even think of the sexual abuse of children, […]
Jewish community reacts to Aurora tragedy
Chris LeppekJul 26, 2012
IN the wake of last weeks mass shooting at an Aurora theater, shockwaves came in rapid, blunt succession shock, disbelief, anger, confusion, grief and they...
Jewish communities reach out to victims of fire
Chris LeppekJul 05, 2012
IT took two days for Rabbi Moshe Liberow, spiritual leader of Chabad of Southern Colorado, the Lubavitch synagogue in Colorado Springs, to learn that his synagogue and...
