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In Eisen home, personal touch in every room
Larry HankinMay 25, 2017
Melanie Eisen loves to entertain her large extended family on the holidays. It’s not unusual for 20 to 30 guests to gather around the Eisen table for Rosh Hashanah or...
Should we pray for healing?
Andrea JacobsMay 25, 2017
A friend leans over to you at services and whispers that a congregant is terminally ill. Regardless of your connection — close, remote, conflicted — shock levels the...
Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Four Denverites remember
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Clara Elefant My husband had a sabbatical coming in 1962 so we...
Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Five Denverites reflect
Andrea JacobsMay 18, 2017
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Crisp, animated memories range from white-knuckle fear that the...
Denverite in the war in 1967
Hillel GoldbergMay 18, 2017
Israel has changed, but the memories of 1967 have not. At least not if you served in that decisive war. The politics have colored the intervening years. Was this war,...
Suddenly
Hillel GoldbergMay 18, 2017
It didn’t seem particularly unusual at the time. It just seemed like a workable — and free — living arrangement. But in May-June, 1968, I was one of only two Jews...
The Colorado Israeli heading JEWISHcolorado
Andrea JacobsApr 27, 2017
Diana Zeff Anderson, JEWISHcolorado board chair since July, 2016, speaks fluent Hebrew with an American accent and unaccented American English — an unusual trait she...
Why has JNF quadrupled its campaign? Meet Boaz Meir
Chris LeppekApr 27, 2017
Next time you’re playing a casual game of word association, throw “Jewish National Fund” into the mix. If participants are actively Jewish, or know a few things...
The new look at the ‘Deli’
Chris LeppekMar 23, 2017
Customer service has always been Joshua Horowitz’s thing. His first job, when still a teenager, was working in the kitchen for a New York caterer. Soon thereafter, he...
‘Jewish identity’ 101
Andrea JacobsMar 23, 2017
Rabbi Michael Sunshine, director of Jewish Student Connection high school clubs at 11 Denver-area schools, believes Jewish teens comprise the most amazing, insightful...
