Very Important People

Dan Grossman’s first day on the air as Denver 7’s morning news anchor was Monday, May 26, 2025. The next Sunday, June 1, as the Boulder Run for Their Lives group was peacefully demonstrating for the release of the hostages held by Hamas, it was attacked with Molotov cocktails, resulting in the death of one woman and injuries to many other people.

Let’s put together a string of adjectives. Energetic. Empathetic. Driven. Laid back. Visionary. Detailed. Community-oriented. They all apply to Ahron Katz, CEO of Peaks Healthcare Consulting, yet they do not capture him. I’m in his office and we’re doing an interview. In pops one of his associates who needs a minute from his boss. In pops in another associate, and then Katz’s daughter. Katz himself glances at his phone screen every so often. Yet, the interview is not interrupted. It is said of the legendary Torah scholar of Vilna, Lithuania, R’ Chaim O. Grodzinsky, that he could write two different responsa, one with the left hand and one with the right hand, simultaneously! Ahron Katz seems to be able to handle two (or more) totally different tasks simultaneously. It looks effortless.

Holocaust survivor, educator, retailer Avi Brown gazes at the showroom in the furniture store that he and his wife, author Corinne Brown, opened in Littleton in 1976. The store is closing soon after nearly 50 years in business. “It’s enough,” says...

You may remember the name Jeremy “JD” Krones from a story in last year’s L’Chaim® magazine about Jewish life in Grand County. Yes, there is Jewish life there. According to Krones, records of Jewish residents go back to the late 1800s, with shopkeepers in Granby and Kremmling. Krones, 35, hasn’t been there quite that long. He moved to Grand County from Flagstaff, Ariz. seven years ago to run the local land trust, Colorado Headwaters Land Trust.

Esther Mizrachi, MD, wanted to become a physician from the time she was in kindergarten. She grew up in a medical family. Her father was a physician at the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. “I was inundated with medicine. When other kids were coloring Winnie the Pooh coloring books, my dad got me a Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book. I always knew I wanted to be a physician,” she recalls.

Tamar Schwarzbard, 35, recently relocated to Denver from Jerusalem. Originally from New York, Schwarzbard has a BA in history from Yeshiva University. After making aliyah, she studied at The Hebrew University and has an MA in communications and journalism. She previously led the team responsible for managing the State of Israel’s official digital presence across social media platforms in seven languages.

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