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Yaron Marcus

VIP New Faces: Yaron Marcus

Marcus, 39, grew up in a real estate family but he never intended to make that his career, until seven years ago when he decided to give it a shot. He didn’t just give...

Sara Zessar

VIP New Faces: Sara Zessar

Zessar, 35, was born in Rock Island, Ill., and graduated Washington University. She founded Discovery College Consulting, which helps high school students navigate the...

Simon Schwartz

VIP New Faces: Simon Schwartz

Schwartz loves Israel. At 33, he has chaired the Colorado chapter of JNFuture, Jewish National Fund’s young leadership, and is the organization’s national membership...

Jack Barton on stage

Funny guy Jack Barton reinvents himself at 92

 you hear the one about the 93-year-old guy…? Sounds like a joke but it’s not. It’s the true story of Denver’s Jack Barton, believed to be the oldest active...

Estelle Nadel (Aleksei Kolesnikov)

Estelle’s saga: running from death as a child in the Holocaust

81, Estelle Nadel bears no physical hint of the trauma inflicted upon her in the Holocaust. She’s petite, lovely, immaculately groomed. Her expressive eyes communicate...

One of the very few photos of the Jewish settlement at Cotopaxi. Emanuel Saltiel is at the far right, on horseback. (AJHS)

Wanted: Documents concerning the guilt or innocence of Emanuel Saltiel

ROSH HASHANAH 5777 L’CHAIM MAGAZINE would we be without our heroes and our villains? They are, after all, our avatars of right and wrong, good and evil — the polar...

Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami

Lior’s journey

ROSH HASHANAH 5777 L’CHAIM MAGAZINE birth to adolescence, young adulthood to serving as the rabbi at Roua’h Kidmah in Toulouse, France, the unfolding life of Lior...

Al Chesis performing at Denver Botanic Gardens.

‘Corned beef’ Jew plays the blues

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 cool...

Daniel Krausz

Daniel Krausz: The art of architecture

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 a...

An infant at Rodef Shalom ECC explores the properties of clay.

ECE: Littlest Learners

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 drowsy...