Special Sections
Milestone for Kavod Senior Life — 50 years
Chris LeppekSep 02, 2021
The precise date of birth for the institution now known as Kavod Senior Life appears to have been lost in the mists of time.
Michael Klein, current president-CEO of...
Trailblazer: Dr. Wendy Berenbaum
Andrea JacobsSep 02, 2021
Dr. Wendy Berenbaum, one of the oldest and longest practicing female OB-GYNs in Denver, first envisioned a future in medicine — and specializing in women’s health...
Teaching about race
Chris LeppekAug 12, 2021
long saga of black-Jewish relations in America is complicated territory, fraught with animosity and blessed with friendship. For every positive chapter, it seems, that a...
At History Colorado, the stages of Denver
Andrea JacobsAug 12, 2021
Denver: Visions of the Capital City,” on exhibit at History Colorado,” is a fascinating time machine that transports viewers from 1860 to 2020, and beyond. Similar...
Judi Marcus: ‘A teacher’s teacher’
Larry HankinAug 12, 2021
Marcus is one busy teacher. As in, busy for decades. This year, she teaches aleph-bet and prayerbook Hebrew to fourth and fifth graders at HEA. She also teaches Hebrew...
All hail the #grillmaster
Larry HankinJun 16, 2021
When Chayim and Jennie Gerson gave their dad Rabbi Bernard Gerson a charcoal barbecue grill for Father’s Day some 13 years ago, little did they know that it would...
Ava Dezen’s unconventional yet perfect birth
Shana GoldbergJun 16, 2021
The way Emily Dezen tells it, the birthing of her daughter Ava Louise on January 6, happened exactly the way it should have — even if it was unplanned. For father Ben,...
Rocket scientist
Andrea JacobsJun 16, 2021
For aerospace mechanical engineer Ariel “Air” Sandberg, 25, the lure of space first took off when she volunteered in middle school for a space exhibit at the Denver...
Being a war volunteer led to the experience of a lifetime
Jill AltmanJun 16, 2021
When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, Colorado Springs’ Temple Shalom member Rosanne Miles Fahrenbruch was the costume designer for a theater production in...
Reproductive geneticist aims to improve fertility
Chris LeppekJun 16, 2021
While one in 400 women across the general population have the BRCA mutation, one in 40 Ashkenazi women have it. That’s the highest susceptibility rate of any...
