Governor signs Holocaust and genocide education bill
Shana GoldbergJul 09, 2020
Under a hot Colorado sun, Governor Jared Polis signed into law HB-1336, the Holocaust and Genocide Education in Public Schools bill, at JEWISHcolorado on July 8. The...
Big bad wolf?
Shana GoldbergJul 02, 2020
One of the privileges — or burdens, depending on one’s point of view — of being Swiss is voting up to four times yearly. Switzerland is often held up as […]
Jewish ‘privilege’
Shana GoldbergJun 25, 2020
I get worried when people talk about Jews having white privilege. The IJN recently ran an article with black Jews expressing how other Jews could support them, and a...
What’s changed in 40 years?
Shana GoldbergJun 18, 2020
With the library still closed, my evenings continue to be filled with nostalgic childhood re-reads. As I finished the latest one, I said to myself: “This could never...
‘Because science’
Shana GoldbergJun 11, 2020
“Because science” is possibly the most facile rejoinder I’ve heard repeated throughout this pandemic. The people who utter this phrase are under the false...
Powder keg
Shana GoldbergJun 04, 2020
The fuse was ready to be lit. Months of lockdown; economic contraction; uncertainty about the future. As evidenced by earlier anti-lockdown protests and Capitol...
Down the rabbit hole
Shana GoldbergMay 28, 2020
I love a good conspiracy theory. While I’ve never crossed over to fully believing any, I like going down the rabbit hole and eventually hitting the inevitable logical...
Some area Orthodox synagogues are reopening; others wait
Shana GoldbergMay 21, 2020
synagogues in Denver plan to open as soon as today, May 22, and others next week. Among the synagogues that plan to resume minyanim is Zera Abraham off West Colfax....
Our Chernobyl
Shana GoldbergMay 21, 2020
There’s a great scene in the series I just finished watching, “Deutschland 86.” A member of the East German foreign intelligence discovers high levels of radiation...
Prophecy (un)fulfilled
Shana GoldbergMay 14, 2020
As I read Rabbi Sacks’ column this week, a section jumped out at me. Sacks recounts the story of Jonah, who was told by G-d to warn the people of […]
