Today’s Life
Temple Shalom gears up for golden anniversary
Jill AltmanJul 30, 2020
Temple Shalom in Colorado Springs has a golden anniversary coming up in 2021. In the mid-1960s, the two existing Jewish congregations in Colorado Springs — Reform...
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...
Saul Rosenthal retires as cantor of Rodef Shalom
Larry HankinMay 21, 2020
Rosenthal has had a long and varied professional life: college instructor, regional ADL director, front man for a Jewish bluegrass band, PR consultant, music store...
Online worship ‘zooms’ into Colorado Springs
Jill AltmanMay 14, 2020
To use an already-hackneyed expression, we are living in an extraordinary time. Who knew that Judaism would be affected in this day and age by a virus? And yet, it...
Zoom bris
Larry HankinApr 08, 2020
eight-day-old Ezra Samuel Knaster was welcomed into the covenant with his bris milah, there were only four people in the room, including Ezra. Ezra’s virtual bris —...
How to keep kosher in a small American city
Jill AltmanApr 02, 2020
If you live in a big city such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles or Denver, you will find it easy to keep kosher. Colorado Springs, on the other hand, poses a challenge....
The wedding with no guests — and no rabbi (sort of)
Ben Harris, JTAApr 02, 2020
NEW YORK — Before everything changed, Jalna Silverstein and Asael Papour were planning a wedding much like many other Jewish nuptials. They had a band and caterer...
Uncertain future for Pueblo’s Jewish community
Chris LeppekApr 02, 2020
the first night of Chanukah, 2019, something happened in Pueblo which, so far as anybody knows, had never taken place in the city’s 158-year history: A menorah was lit...
Temple Sinai’s Rabbi Callman: It’s more than gender
Andrea JacobsFeb 27, 2020
Jordy Callman, assistant rabbi at Temple Sinai since July, loves her coffee, emphatically prefers “female rabbi” to “woman rabbi” and would never call herself...
Mitzvah projects expand in scope
Jill AltmanFeb 27, 2020
The process of becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah has changed over the years regarding parties and celebrations, but in no way has it changed more than in the mitzvah projects...
