Tag: #coronavirus
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?...
Lessons from COVID
Andrea JacobsJun 04, 2020
COVID-19, one can sink or swim, withdraw or rescue, bewail unfair portions or cherish the blessings. My aunt Zelda, who loved to walk and devoured poetry, always quoted...
Sinai Bat Mitzvah milestone for Reese Bernstein — and temple
Andrea JacobsJun 04, 2020
Bernstein’s Bat Mitzvah Saturday, May 30, in Temple Sinai’s chapel signified a milestone in this young gymnast’s Jewish life and the Reform temple that shuttered...
His mattress matters!
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 04, 2020
The coronavirus has been such an enormous, life-changing event. Together with much of the planet, we’ve been on lockdown, in quarantine. For so many if not most...
They are also heroes: Funeral directors
Andrea JacobsMay 28, 2020
S. Eliot, contemporizing Chaucer’s lyrical ode to spring in The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), immortalized April as the cruelest month in his epic poem, “The...
It’s not normal
Hillel GoldbergMay 28, 2020
It’s as if I’m at the baseball park and wonder where I am. It’s not that I’m losing my mind. I know I’m at the baseball park — but why […]
Up close and personal no more
Amy LedermanMay 28, 2020
I have always been a “touchy-feely” kind of gal. And while I never gave it much thought before, I realize now that I am a chronic hugger, arm-linker and...
Some area Orthodox synagogues are reopening; others wait
Shana GoldbergMay 21, 2020
synagogues in Denver plan to open as soon as today, May 22, and others next week. Among the synagogues that plan to resume minyanim is Zera Abraham off West Colfax....
No COVID-19 deaths at Kavod or Shalom Park
Chris LeppekMay 21, 2020
, as they say, don’t lie. In the grim arithmetic of the coronavirus, it’s clear that older people are considerably more likely to die of the disease than those who...
