Education & Culture
Kabbalah Experience expands
Larry HankinAug 15, 2019
am I?” “What is my purpose in life?” People constantly ask these questions but most do not know how to find the answers. Over the past 13 years, more than 1,100...
Social media and young minds
Chris LeppekAug 15, 2019
to gauge the impact of social media? A quantum leap in communications? A tectonic paradigm shift in human interaction? An unprecedented sea change in access to...
Hal Aqua’s musical journey
Andrea JacobsAug 15, 2019
Aqua, front man for the klezmer fusion group The Lost Tribe, is always on the lookout for diverse musical traditions that merge inside a singular “sweet spot.”...
Goodstein’s latest: Denver Public Schools
Chris LeppekAug 15, 2019
One might think that after writing umpteen books on Denver history, Phil Goodstein might choose something simple or one-dimensional for his next project — and one...
A peek into Bruce Hellerstein’s ballpark museum
Evan GrantAug 09, 2018
Tucked away in a small building on the corner of Blake and 20th is a hidden gem that can be relished by baseball fans all over the world. Bruce Hellerstein’s
Turnaround: BMH-BJ preschool at capacity
Shana GoldbergAug 09, 2018
might be no better place to work. The day the Intermountain Jewish News visited BMH-BJ preschool it was global travel day. Each classroom has adopted a country....
Found in translation: Winner of Man Booker Prize lives in Denver
Andrea JacobsAug 09, 2018
Americans reading a Hebrew novel or any foreign-language book in English are oblivious to the fact that two people are responsible for this literary sojourn — the...
Seidenfeld brings new excitement to Yeshiva Toras Chaim
Chris LeppekAug 09, 2018
a weekday afternoon and Rabbi Naftali Seidenfeld is doing an interview — the hard way. He’s obviously in the car and at least some of his children are riding along....
Literature meets law
Chris LeppekAug 10, 2017
Nan Goodman has held for the past two years a very prestigious position in Jewish academia, as director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado,...
A ‘forest kindergarten’ in Mitzpe Ramon
Andrew Tobin, JTAAug 10, 2017
MITZPE RAMON, Israel — It sounds like a Jewish mother’s nightmare: a preschool class held outdoors in the desert. But parents in this remote Israeli town drop off...
