For 32 years, Esther Melamed has been the secular studies principal at Beth Jacob High School. That’s a lot of students she has seen and guided. Melamed estimates that over the years she has taught 800 to 900 graduates; a perfect background to bolster conversations about the 250th anniversary of the US and the future of America.
By Penny Schwartz Most people spend their later years looking back. Harold Grinspoon has spent his reinventing himself. The billionaire businessman became a philanthropist. The philanthropist discovered Jewish children’s books …
A group of parents has purchased a Jewish school in Rio de Janeiro to keep it open amid declining enrollment, determined to preserve Jewish education in their region. The unusual move has led to a sudden increase in enrollment amid competition from international schools in the city.
Stefanie Halpern has one of the neatest jobs in the world. Halpern, 40, is the director of collections for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, where over 24 million pieces of Jewish history reside. The Institute was founded in 1925 in Vilna (then in Poland, today Vilnius, Lithuania) and relocated to New York in 1940.
Earlier this year, three classrooms at Hillel Academy were transformed into an exhibition about the Holocaust. The project was conceived by 7th-grade teacher Sara Halpern and executed by the middle school students of the school’s girls’ division.
It is difficult to imagine that something positive could have come out of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey in Houston in 2017. But, indeed, there was a silver lining, and Joshua Furman, the new director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, was at the center of it.
Paulette Yousefzadeh Greenfield remembers, almost too well, the afternoon of April 24, 2024. She received a text from her son Shai Greenfield, then a seventh-grader at Campus Middle School. “It said,” she recalled, “‘Mom, you’ll never guess who they picked for Arab American Heritage Month.’”
For most young Israelis, the post-high school years go like this: two years of compulsory military service, followed by a gap year of traveling, then off to university, trade school or the workforce. On Oct. 7, many university students found themselves back in the military as reservists were called into service as Israel went to war for its survival against Hamas.
After more than a quarter century of restless but patient roaming through several Denver locations, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop finally moved into a permanent home, a spacious, attractive and custom-designed facility in Denver’s rapidly redeveloping Clayton neighborhood.
In the wake of President Biden’s push for a free universal pre-kindergarten program, some states have been scrambling to implement systems that allow three and four-year-olds a seat in schools. Colorado is one of those states.
As Jewish students head back to their university campus, or perhaps their first foray into the collegiate world, they might well enter an environment in which the very idea of Israel is likely to be criticized and savaged, delegitimized and sanctioned.
The Rabbi Replies speaks with Rabbi Avraham Mintz of Chabad of South Metro Denver in Lone Tree. “We’re not there to step on each other. We’re there to grow together. That’s how redemption comes.”
“Sounds Jewish” is a nationally distributed radio show that offers a weekly dive into the variety of ways in which Jewish life, culture and religion are expressed through music.
The long saga of black-Jewish relations in America is complicated territory, fraught with animosity and blessed with friendship. For every positive chapter, it seems, that a negative counterweight rears its …
“Building Denver: Visions of the Capital City,” on exhibit at History Colorado,” is a fascinating time machine that transports viewers from 1860 to 2020, and beyond. Similar to the Hebrew …
Judi Marcus is one busy teacher. As in, busy for decades. This year, she teaches aleph-bet and prayerbook Hebrew to fourth and fifth graders at HEA. She also teaches Hebrew …
The well-worn phrase “back to school” — an inescapable part of our late summer ritual — might not be totally accurate in this strange year of 2020. In a week …
Todd Siler, a renowned multimedia artist, helps individuals and groups fine-tune and resolve goals through a creative process utilizing scissors, paste, crayons, found objects and intuition. Siler, the first visual …
“Who am I?” “What is my purpose in life?” People constantly ask these questions but most do not know how to find the answers. Over the past 13 years, more …
How to gauge the impact of social media? A quantum leap in communications? A tectonic paradigm shift in human interaction? An unprecedented sea change in access to information? Or — …
Hal Aqua, front man for the klezmer fusion group The Lost Tribe, is always on the lookout for diverse musical traditions that merge inside a singular “sweet spot.” Despite his …
One might think that after writing umpteen books on Denver history, Phil Goodstein might choose something simple or one-dimensional for his next project — and one would be wrong. The …
Tucked away in a small building on the corner of Blake and 20th is a hidden gem that can be relished by baseball fans all over the world. Bruce Hellerstein’s …
There might be no better place to work. The day the Intermountain Jewish News visited BMH-BJ preschool it was global travel day. Each classroom has adopted a country. “Greece” is …