DNA and the Holocaust: Can we identify the relatives of the victims?
Chris LeppekMar 04, 2010
THE recent emergence of DNA research has proven itself a mighty key in the ongoing struggle to solve once impenetrable mysteries. In Colorado alone, information derived...
Camp Ramah’s rainmaker
Chris LeppekMar 03, 2010
WHAT do fine cigars and a brand-new Jewish summer camp have in common? Absolutely nothing, would be the perfectly logical answer. Wrong. There is indeed common ground...
Denver day schools strategize on coping with the economic squeeze
Chris LeppekJan 21, 2010
FOR the past 16 months or so, a perfect economic storm has been raging, affecting governments, businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations in an utterly...
Rebbetzin Jungreis keeps up outreach
Chris LeppekDec 10, 2009
REBBETZIN Esther Jungreis has traveled a great many roads and made use of virtually every sort of media in the course of her lifes work. She has spoken to audiences...
Dr. Baskin works the gears of peace
Chris LeppekNov 19, 2009
One can exhaust the resources of the thesaurus trying to come up words to describe Dr. Gershon Baskin determined, stubborn, resolute, resilient, indefatigable. Not to...
Zaler gets a long, 15-year sentence
Chris LeppekNov 12, 2009
WITH the sharp finality of his gavel strike last Friday, Nov. 6, US District Judge John Kane passed sentence on Arnold Zaler, the former Denver kosher meat entrepreneur...
Mayor Barkat wants Jerusalem to soar
Chris LeppekNov 12, 2009
IT cant be easy being the mayor of Jerusalem. The shadow of his ancient, beautiful and troubled city seems to follow him everywhere he goes, even to faraway Denver....
Underdog champ
Chris LeppekNov 05, 2009
ITS far from a secret that David Lane has a thing for the underdog. He is ready and willing to defend societys most unpopular, even loathed, figures everyone from...
Celebration in Trinidad
Chris LeppekNov 05, 2009
The culmination of more than 10 years of painstaking and sometimes frustrating work will be celebrated on Nov. 14, when Temple Aaron of Trinidad and the Colorado State...
Local lulav: on the rise
Chris LeppekOct 08, 2009
Its October, the leaves are changing, the air is growing nippy and in observance of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the lulav and etrog are falling abundantly from the...
