Ilhan Omar shows her hand
Shana GoldbergFeb 08, 2024
Confession: I was excited when Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress. I knew I wasn’t necessarily aligned with her politically, but seeing a religious Muslim woman in...
My generation
Shana GoldbergFeb 01, 2024
Having celebrated my birthday last week (along with my cosmic twin Volodymyr Zelensky and my ancestral twin Robert Burns), I am firmly in middle age. No sugarcoating it.
Shell shock: Footage of Oct. 7 screened in Denver
Shana GoldbergJan 31, 2024
Shell shock was the term that came immediately to mind at a screening this week at the Tivoli Center of footage from the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7. Gunfire, gunfire,...
The Israel-Hamas war — an economic and geopolitical perspective
Shana GoldbergJan 25, 2024
From his perch in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Denver-born Daniel Wagner has a different vantage of the Israel-Hamas War. That’s not only because of his...
Minor (lethal) Offenses
Shana GoldbergJan 25, 2024
“The teenagers had been jailed for minor offenses like throwing stones.” This sentence, penned by the AP when a hostage-prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel...
Fight or flight
Shana GoldbergJan 18, 2024
In these past 100-plus days, I keep thinking about fight-or-flight, the body’s stress response to threats. Which, fleeing or fighting, carries the highest possibility...
Denver marks 100 days of captivity
Shana GoldbergJan 17, 2024
Subzero temperatures couldn’t keep people away. Around 200 people gathered last Sunday, Jan. 14, at the JCC on the 100th day since Oct. 7, the day Israel was invaded...
Livnot b’Yachad
Shana GoldbergJan 11, 2024
As I sat in the closing plenary of the JNF-USA Global Conference late last year, I knew that the vision Russell Robinson was outlining about rebuilding Israel’s south...
More hoaxes target Colorado Jewish groups
Shana GoldbergJan 10, 2024
Another series of hoaxes have targeted Colorado Jewish organizations on Jan. 9.
Colorado House Speaker formally reprimands Epps
Shana GoldbergJan 10, 2024
Colorado’s speaker of the house, Julie McCluskie, has formally reprimanded Democrat Rep. Elisabeth Epps in a letter sent Jan. 8.