Education & Culture
‘Corned beef’ Jew plays the blues
Andrea JacobsAug 11, 2016
Chesis, whose deep voice winks lazily as clouds and sunlight pass above his shaved head, is the essence of laid back. Despite the morning heat, it might as well be...
Daniel Krausz: The art of architecture
Chris LeppekAug 11, 2016
you might not know it, within the greater Denver Jewish community Daniel Krausz is virtually everywhere. Not the man himself (though he does seem to get around quite...
ECE: Littlest Learners
Andrea JacobsAug 11, 2016
the 1950s and 1960s, many Jewish parents dispatched three- and four-year-olds to nursery schools. Games eased the awkwardness, and naps, cookies and milk revived...
DJDS’ Rotenberg loves teaching
Evan GrantAug 11, 2016
The life of a teacher can be tough for anyone. A teacher must have patience and discipline especially around middle school and high school students, who can sometimes be...
CU’s Bruce Benson: ‘I like fixing things’
Hillel GoldbergAug 11, 2016
Benson cuts to the chase. Add up the number of students he’s got to oversee. The budgets. The staff. The faculty. The four campuses. It’s a huge job — president...
Refueling the masters
Andrea JacobsAug 11, 2016
Masters: World Famous Masterpieces with a Jewish Twist by artist-author Esty Frankel-Fersel transplants Jewish themes and symbols into high art’s most revered...
Soviet-Jewish American writers come of age
Andrea JacobsAug 13, 2015
. Sasha Senderovich is a master analyst of an exciting literary wave fomented by Soviet-Jewish American authors who came here as children and teens. Their...
New melodies at Temple Sinai
Andrea JacobsAug 13, 2015
Sheila (pronounced Shayla) Nesis has temporarily lost her office to the final stages of Temple Sinai’s building campaign — until a staffer in the religious school...
Harvard to HUC to Emanuel
Andrea JacobsAug 13, 2015
Elizabeth Sacks, looking more like a mother dropping off her child off at religious school than the next senior cantor at Temple Emanuel, nestles into a corner seat...
Teaching the Holocaust
Chris LeppekAug 13, 2015
the Holocaust be taught to children? Let’s allow one of the primary architects of the Holocaust itself — Hermann Goering — to answer the question. “Education...
