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Shaliach Itai Divinksy is representing Israel — sheltered in place

Divinsky, JEWISHcolorado’s shaliach since August, 2019, materializes over Zoom from his makeshift home office — totally unaware that one of his girls is sneaking a curious peak behind him. A bearded, T-shirted, upbeat 36-year-old, Divinsky threads joyful positivity into his sober assessment of being Colorado’s Israel emissary during a pandemic. When JEWISHcolorado closed its offices in late March due to COVID-19, he packed his belongings and rushed home. “We moved one of the beds in the bedroom off to the side and put up a folding table for a desk. “It seems like I really haven’t gotten up from this chair since,” he laughs. Divinsky switches his Zoom background — an increasingly popular diversion for platform users — and puts up a screen shot of […]
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