VIP New Faces: Simon Schwartz
Larry HankinNov 17, 2016
Schwartz loves Israel. At 33, he has chaired the Colorado chapter of JNFuture, Jewish National Fund’s young leadership, and is the organization’s national membership...
Funny guy Jack Barton reinvents himself at 92
Larry HankinNov 17, 2016
you hear the one about the 93-year-old guy…? Sounds like a joke but it’s not. It’s the true story of Denver’s Jack Barton, believed to be the oldest active...
Rose Hill Cemetery upholds sacred traditions
Larry HankinSep 29, 2016
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5777 SECTION D does not necessarily associate innovation with cemeteries. After all they represent perpetuity. However, innovation is taking...
The world’s Jewish narrative
Larry HankinSep 29, 2016
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5777 SECTION D Many Jewish travelers like to veer away from the typical tourist itineraries in their destinations to check out a local synagogue or...
Rabbi Sinai from Brooklyn directs Israel’s Muss high school for Diaspora kids
Larry HankinJun 09, 2016
THIS BELONGS in the “you-never-know-what-the-future-may-bring” department. Leor Sinai started out as a New York City nightclub promoter. Today, he is a rabbi and...
Tiny house movement — downsizing with a passion
Larry HankinMay 27, 2016
HAVE YOU ever been in a house with a walk-in closet so large that you jokingly remarked, “I could live in this closet?” For a growing number of people, that huge...
‘What keeping kosher means to me’
Larry HankinApr 07, 2016
Kerry Berman, President & COO, real estate investing firm, 3 children Keeping kosher means raising my consciousness about what I am eating, something that is an...
The other side of Rose Community Foundation
Larry HankinJan 28, 2016
“ROSE COMMUNITY Foundation is known primarily as a grant making organization the steward of the $170 million in proceeds from the sale of Rose Medical Center in...
Dinger at IJN Chanukah contest ceremony, Dec. 10
Larry HankinNov 05, 2015
The Intermountain Jewish News is proud of its community partners, Childrens Hospital and the Colorado Rockies, in making the IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest a...
Irene Lofland, from Soviet emigré
Larry HankinOct 29, 2015
Irene Lofland lived the first six years of her life in Minsk, Belarus, but she has no memories of that life. Irene’s parents Jacob and Elena Garelik fled the Soviet...
