Denver
HEA Cantor Arielle Green sings behind the mask
Andrea JacobsDec 03, 2020
CHANUKAH 5781 SECTION E, PAGE 7 Arielle Green, praised since her first appearance on HEA’s bimah in July, projects such animation and authenticity that she breaks the...
What would have happened if the Nazis had won?
Chris LeppekNov 05, 2020
“Fourth Reich,” as we all know, never happened. It’s fantasy, pure and simple, useful only to writers of dystopian fiction or as fodder for speculative...
Clean Speech Colorado, Volume 2, this November
Larry HankinOct 01, 2020
Eleven months ago, the Colorado Jewish community joined together in an unprecedented effort to improve itself. In the years, months and weeks leading up to November,...
Chabad South Metro opens new $6 million campus
Larry HankinSep 03, 2020
The Jewish landscape of southeast suburban Denver is changing with the opening of the new South Metro Campus for Jewish Life at 6100 E. Belleview Ave. in Greenwood...
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...
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 —...
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...
Mikvah of West Denver undergoes extensive renovation
Andrea JacobsOct 24, 2019
The Mikvah of West Denver, originally located behind the Historic Lake Steam Baths in the late 1800s until moving to Julian St., relocated to its current address at 1404...
Rick Brody is new JFS Community Chaplain
Andrea JacobsAug 29, 2019
Rick Brody, JFS’ community chaplain for the Denver-Boulder area since December, 2018, felt the first conscious stirrings of the rabbinate when he was 14. While...
