Denver
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...
‘Seeing’ Israel for the first time — through touch, hearing, other senses
IJN StaffJul 25, 2019
By Jenny Rapp It wasn’t the typical first trip to Israel for Nechama Zakroff, 24, who went on a different sort of Birthright trip this summer. “YALLA,” an...
Keshet’s thrift store helps special needs employees
IJN StaffJun 20, 2019
By Sophie Pomeranz, IJN intern In 2001, Elly and Lola Zussman founded Keshet of the Rockies as a program inside of Hillel Academy that would support the learning needs...
‘Seder Feud’ Passover game created by HEA members
Shana GoldbergMar 14, 2019
Did you take the survey? Abbie Hayutin, together with husband Sid, has developed a new game for Passover based on the classic TV game show Family Feud. A link to...
BBYO international convention comes to Denver
IJN StaffFeb 07, 2019
At a moment in history when teens are revolutionizing how they are valued and seen as partners in building society and declaring that age isn’t the defining factor of...
JFS Food Pantry helps people affected by shutdown
Larry HankinJan 31, 2019
Thirteen households — encompassing 42 individuals — have availed themselves of the offer by Jewish Family Service to open its Weinberg Food Pantry to furloughed...
For Emanuel’s Rabbi Hyatt: holiness and pluralism
Chris LeppekDec 20, 2018
odds of a newly-minted rabbi — or any rabbi, for that matter — getting a pulpit position in his or her hometown must be staggeringly low. “I don’t think I even...
Rodef Shalom’s Rabbi Kobrin is thoughtful, joyful
Andrea JacobsDec 13, 2018
Rachel Kobrin speaks with such intensity that her body sways back and forth in the chair, as if she were davening. The observation both surprises and intrigues her....
Fanny Starr survived — and persisted
Shana GoldbergDec 13, 2018
There were tears, applause and awe last Thursday evening, Dec. 6, at the Tattered Cover book signing of local Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr. Freezing temperatures...
Meet the ‘Meir’ of south suburbs’ Jewish teens
Shana GoldbergNov 08, 2018
2015, Rabbi Meir Simon moved to Highlands Ranch to “step into the gap” left when Jewish teens complete Hebrew school. Together with his wife Sara, Simon, who is...
