Tag: #coronavirus
What — still COVID?
IJN Editorial StaffAug 06, 2020
Perhaps more stressful than the COVID shutdown of virtually every institution and many businesses, and the de facto house arrest of millions, is figuring out what the...
COVID consequences: delay, denial
Andrea JacobsJul 23, 2020
sudden pain grabs your chest. Your arm goes numb. Although you know these are potential warning signs of a heart attack or stroke, you attribute the red flags to...
Sports angst in a pandemic
Chris LeppekJul 16, 2020
the summer simmers on, and the coronavirus pandemic only grows worse in the US, the wide world of sports is suddenly not looking so wide. Fans of major sports are facing...
Welcome back to shul — with new rules
Larry HankinJul 02, 2020
The past month or so has seen some Denver-area synagogues slowly reopening for limited daily and Shabbat services. The services don’t look like they did before the...
Emotional fallout
Amy LedermanJul 02, 2020
Since March of this year, we have been forced to reassess and restructure how we think about and interact with the world. From empty calendars and stockpiled closets to...
COVID in Colorado: Monitoring key developments
Chris LeppekJul 02, 2020
do we know about the coronavirus in Colorado? A great deal — reams of data, long columns of numbers and statistics, charts upon charts, graphs and projections. And,...
Wanderlust on hold
Andrea JacobsJun 25, 2020
January, 2020, as reports of a novel virus in Wuhan, China, galvanized my attention, I booked a mid-April trip to Stockholm, Sweden, for my brother’s milestone...
Healthcare workers in Colorado Springs reflect on COVID-19
Jill AltmanJun 25, 2020
In this extraordinary time in which we are living, no set of people has been more affected by changes than medical professionals. Doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and...
Jco raises $650,000 for COVID relief
Chris LeppekJun 11, 2020
needs. That’s the phrase Rabbi Jay Strear, president and CEO of JEWISHcolorado, uses to describe what he and other leaders of the Denver-based Jewish federation saw...
When it comes to reopening, shuls are taking it slow
Chris LeppekJun 04, 2020
summer settles in, and as at least some aspects of life in Colorado are beginning to return to their pre-pandemic routines, are local synagogues ready to follow suit?...
