Blogs
Global Day of Jewish Learning
Rocky Mountain JewOct 28, 2010
This year, Sunday November 7th will be a Global Day of Jewish Learning, with cities as far apart as. At the centerpiece is scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who will be...
Links to…Yitzhak Rabin
Rocky Mountain JewOct 22, 2010
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the assassination of Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin. A lot can happen in 15 years. Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. 9/11. War...
Changes in Swiss-Israel relations?
Rocky Mountain JewOct 15, 2010
Last week the Swiss Minister of Defence Ueli Maurer completed a three-day trip to Israel that was replete with honors – and, of course, backlash. At Zurich...
Team Esther
Rocky Mountain JewOct 08, 2010
For those not in the know, every six months former supermodel Tyra Banks hosts a reality tv show for aspiring models. Despite its title, America’s Next Top Model,...
Israel’s new best friend?
Rocky Mountain JewOct 04, 2010
Ask a random sampling of people when the Cold War ended and most will say 1989. A few may say 1991, when the soviet union finally dissolved. But was it […]
Links to…Sukkot
Rocky Mountain JewSep 26, 2010
Sukkot ranks up there as one of the quirkiest Jewish holidays. Living outdoors just as autumn is settling in? Shaking a seemingly random collection of branches and a...
Preparing for Yom Kippur
Rocky Mountain JewSep 13, 2010
This Shabbat we won’t be partaking in warm chicken soup or steaming hot cholent (as reported in the IJN’s Rosh Hashana edition). We’ll be doing all of...
Blowing the shofar – a mile above sea level
Rocky Mountain JewSep 03, 2010
It’s not something one ponders often, but how difficult is it to blow the shofar in Denver, at one mile or 5280 feet above sea level? In its Rosh Hashana
Classic Jewish dishes
Rocky Mountain JewAug 26, 2010
Two weeks and counting… Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is arriving on the evening of September 8th. So four meals — two evening, two daytime — which means...
Rosh Hashanah seder
Rocky Mountain JewAug 25, 2010
When you hear the word “seder” what comes to mind? Matzah, wine, saltwater: in one word, Passover. But there’s also the lesser known Rosh Hashanah...
