Aish of the Rockies Rabbi Yaakov Meyer new book collects the Jewish prayers for all kind of occasions, from known to the obscure, including a Prayer for Loneliness, which he jokes could be applied to Broncos fans depending on the season.
Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins’ passport has a lot of stamps: Eastern Europe, Morocco and Israel, of course.One place draws particular fascination. One place keeps calling her name. Cuba.
Some people return to the places that shaped them simply to reminisce. Rabbi Jordan Shaner is returning to help shape the next generation. Years after sitting in the classrooms of Temple Sinai as a child, he has come home as the congregation’s new rabbinic director of Jewish learning, bringing his journey full circle.
On the horizon: a third anniversary since the Hamas horrors of Oct. 7, 2023. Eylon Levy remembers the Israeli war room like it was yesterday. “They needed people to talk to the media, and it was an atmosphere of all hands on deck,” Levy told the IJN. Levy became the English spokesperson for the Israeli government.
The countdown was on. It’s less than two days before HEA’s big fundraiser, featuring Cantor Azi Schwartz in concert, and CEO Steve Levine is unrattled by the relentless demands on his time and attention. “You know the story of the ducks,” Levine says, “where the duck that’s underwater is pedaling like crazy. But just above water, they look calm. Inside, right now, my mind is churning with everything I need to do.”
The patient is young, and squirming. After all, what two-year-old enjoys the ritual of annual inoculations and the needles that go with it. “All right, we’re done torturing,” says Dr. Rachel Fishman. Dr. Fishman happens to be a veterinarian, the medical director of VetCare Animal Hospital. Her patient is a young and feisty terrier named Boci.
A person carrying a Torah scroll in memory of a loved one on his yahrzeit tripped and dropped the Torah scroll during the procession around the Hebrew Educational Alliance sanctuary …
It was 2019. Life was good. Jay Siegel was four years removed from his retirement from Cummins Diesel after a long career as an engineer. Siegel, a gabbai at BMH-BJ, spent some time consulting, and was even a part-time barista at Starbucks — just to keep busy.
David Last’s book, Forged by Limitation, is aptly published by a company called Journey Institute Press. It is indeed the story of a journey — more like a roller-coaster ride — that starts with his cerebral palsy diagnosis at the age of 11 months and meanders through his childhood, high school and an attempt at college.
The path to Ilene Rosen’s office is easy to navigate, as long as you shuffle to avoid the line of wagons filled from the latest Costco haul: Bubbie’s pickles, condiments, plastic cups, hot dog buns — all essentials for a carnival. Purim was on the horizon when we met.
A new kosher restaurant, L’Chaim Ma’adenei Melech is slated to open soon at 909 S. Oneida St., Suite 1-B. The eatery, owned and operated by the Katanov family, will feature Middle Eastern — notably Bukharian — cuisine from Uzbekistan, which L’Chaim’s manager Benjamin Katanov says is “full of flavor boosts.”
A ceremony officially declaring Mount Nebo Memorial Park and Cemetery a Historic Landmark took place Sunday, Nov. 16, at the cemetery. The Historic Landmark status was granted by unanimous vote of the Aurora City Council.
All school districts, and many individual schools are powered by real estate. Denver Jewish Day School has been no different. In 2005, JEWISHcolorado loaned DJDS $1 million to aid in the expansion of its campus on S. Wabash St.
Temple Emanuel will celebrate the installation of Senior Rabbis Emily Hyatt and Elizabeth Sacks, the Shabbat of Nov. 7 and 8.
The venerable BMH-BJ, founded in 1897, is at a crossroad. The synagogue’s seating plan — not a small thing in an Orthodox synagogue — is now different. The sanctuary is now divided by a partition, a mechitza. In the wake of BMH-BJ’s then-longstanding belief that pews should be mixed, the synagogue withdrew from the Orthodox Union in 2016. This left the synagogue in somewhat of an identity crisis, since it was the last of the “traditional” synagogues that once were a major cohort in the OU.
Ekar Farm Executive Director Jason Plotkin’s search for a new location led him to Marc Penner, CEO and president of Shalom Park, the Jewish community nursing home, perched on an expanse at S. Parker Road and Belleview Ave., in southeast Aurora. Shalom Park offered Ekar a 10-year lease on a 2.86-acre parcel on the northeast side of the nursing home and wellness center.
The rabbi replies speaks with Niso Aharonian, president of Ahavat Israel in Aurora: “We decided to have a place that can bring Israelis together. That’s the concept.”
Not far from Rabbi Menachem Siderson’s grasp is a highly-protected metal case that includes essential items of his trade: four feather quills (from a turkey or a duck), packets of cloth adhesive protective tape, a bottle of Nahari ink, a surgical scalpel and rolls of gidim.
Fifty years ago, upon moving to Denver from Chicago, Cantor Isaac Koll discovered that while there were six synagogues in his new hometown that had a daily minyan, but there was no Talmud learning class on the East Side.
The rabbi replies speaks with Rabbi Sarah Shulman of HEA: “You need spiritual endurance, emotional endurance, and it does take some physical endurance” for the rabbinate.
Do you remember the community in “The Bottoms” in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood? In 1960, more than 240 families and businesses were displaced from the area to allow for the construction of the highway-style cloverleaf interchange of Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard.
The message from basketball role model Ryan Turell was simple. “Being an Orthodox Jew takes discipline,” Ryan Turell told a crowd of hoops enthusiasts at DJDS. “Basketball takes discipline, too. You have to put in the work.”
A lot can change in 39 years — and usually does. In this case, not only in Israel, which Rabbi Yisrael Ort last visited in 1985 for his Bar Mitzvah, but Ort himself. The Chabad emissary for Auraria Campus jokes, “I was a Hebrew school dropout.”
It is about a thousand degrees outside, and even more sweltering inside the bounce house in the parking lot of Chabad Bais Menachem in Denver, Colorado — a visit to Camp Gan Izzy, which has been running for 42 years.