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Temple Sinai celebrates 50 years

1966, as the Vietnam War raged and the disturbing question “Is G-d Dead?” appeared on the cover of Time, a young rabbi faced a choice that would ultimately redefine Jewish Denver. Rabbi Raymond Zwerin’s two-year contract as assistant rabbi at Temple Emanuel expired that year. Although neither he nor his Israeli wife Rikki wanted to leave Denver, no rabbinical positions were available in the area. Moving seemed inevitable — until three admiring couples invited the Zwerins over for dinner one night. Between the entrée and dessert, someone proposed a radical idea. “If we started a new Reform temple in southeast Denver, would you stay?” That’s the short version. Zwerin, who graduated HUC in Cincinnati in 1964, had attracted a notable following at Emanuel. Young married […]
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