From Aleppo to Denver: A family’s journey

are fascinating, and sometimes unpredictable, phenomena. L’dor V’dor — from generation to generation — is a Jewish ideal dealing with passing on Judaism and Jewish tradition from one generation to the next. But it doesn’t always work out according to plan. Things don’t always come around full circle. Times and values change, depending on circumstances. Families emigrate and immigrate. Oppression comes and goes.What a Jewish ancestor saw as the ideal expression of Judaism may or may not be seen as such by a scion. And L’dor V’dor is not always an immutable and linear path. A case  in point is the story of longtime Denverite Elliott Husney. Although proud to be Jewish and active in the Jewish community, Husney is not one to wear his […]