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Shabbat Shalom
Our world is awash in narratives and storylines. Our music, our movies and television shows, our literature (it ...
This week’s Torah reading, parashat Metzora, provides further elucidation of tzara’at, the strange contamination ...
On Wednesday night, the Denver Jewish Day School community came together to honor Amity and Marc Cooper for their ...
Like me, I’m sure you too have had those moments when, for the life of you, you can’t find your keys or your ...
Our week has been punctuated by a multitude of sounds. Laughter and song. The ratchety grind of Purim’s groggers. ...
Perspective—it can be hard to maintain. We have sayings like “I need to take a step back” or, in management speak, ...
Against a backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation, this week’s Torah portion, Pikudei, reminds us ...
Like many of you, on Wednesday night Beth and I watched as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. For weeks, ...
For years now, as I’ve read and reread our Torah stories, I’ve been intrigued by the process itself, of what ...
For years now, as I’ve read and reread our Torah stories, I’ve been intrigued by the process itself, of what ...
In this week's Torah portion, Terumah, God asks Moses to work with Israelites to create a physical space for the ...
On this is solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day, an observance that coincides with the anniversary of the liberation ...
Each of my two daughters has a birthday this week, one yesterday, one over the weekend. And each bears a name that ...
I had only lived in Denver for a year—and only been working for JEWISHcolorado for a month—when the pandemic ...
The message to the community of Boulder was said best by Boulder Jewish Family Service Director Jennifer Banyan on ...
In rereading this week’s Torah portion, a snapshot from the recesses of my past floated into my mind. During my ...
Had things gone according to plan, today is the day that I would be returning to Denver from Israel after ...
We began our week by lighting the last Chanukah candle; Zot Chanukah, we call this last day. In Hebrew, zot means ...
Some weeks ago, we set our clocks back, and since then, the days have been getting shorter, the nights darker and ...
We had some delicious challah left over from last Shabbat. It was perfect for challah French toast. A large thick ...
Who amongst your family were the courageous ones? The ones who emigrated, who left their homes and all that was ...
As I write these words, it’s hard to tell that it’s fall. The day is bright, and the sky is cloudless and blue. ...
If you’re a regular reader of this weekly missive, you know that I don’t normally name those whose actions or ...
This has been a painful week. Another painful in a succession of weeks filled with pain. This week has seen broken ...
The beginning of this week’s Torah story receives a lot of attention—and for good reason. It’s the tale of a ...
It was a lovely—and until then—innocuous cell phone conversation with a friend. We had been speaking of nothing in ...
Scientists call it “stuck tune syndrome”; we know it as an earworm: a few notes, a musical phrase, a lyric or a ...
This Shabbat, we read from the final Torah portion before beginning the yearly cycle anew next week. In it, Moses, ...
It was 1988, or perhaps 1989; I was sitting next to my grandfather in the plush velvet seats of Beth Joseph ...
A conversation I had recently about community continues to gnaw at me. I was talking to someone in his 60s, ...
Twenty-five years ago, with the sweltering heat shimmering like a golden aura over the Santa Monica mountains, ...
As the world has reopened, the frequency with which I am going out with friends and colleagues for coffee and ...
Yet again we are at an utter loss for words. Shmuli Silverberg, of blessed memory. An 18-year-old who lost his ...
This is one of those Shabbats when the date, the season, and the yearly cycle of Torah reading coalesce. Following ...
This is one of those Shabbats when the date, the season, and the yearly cycle of Torah reading coalesce. Following ...
The concept of inheritance is a reoccurring theme in the Torah and for the Jewish People. What can be transmitted ...
The concept of inheritance is a reoccurring theme in the Torah and for the Jewish People. What can be transmitted ...
There is a lot on TV these days, but—and you’ll forgive me if I sound like a bit of a snob—there is not a lot to ...
Today, I spoke with a colleague at the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), one of our key partners, and we got into a ...
As we emerge from our COVID stupor, there are a wide array of emotions on display. The Cherry Creek Mall is packed ...
It was September 18, 1978. I was nine years old. I have only vague memories of that year, but I remember that day. ...
On Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 2:00 pm (MT), we invite you to join a national, virtual Day of Action Against ...
Cognitive dissonance describes a state of being in which there’s inconsistency and even conflict in our thoughts, ...
These are painful days. And yet, strange as it may sound, there is hope. Yesterday, while I was focused on the ...
In this week’s Torah reading, from BeChuko-thai, it says, “These are the laws, statutes, and Torot… established ...
What are the boundaries in a world where everything is open, permissible, and even acceptable? Where are they when ...
Last week, the Israeli Air Force took to the skies, families gathered together, and small celebrations resumed in ...
This Shabbat’s Torah portion concerns the transformative practice of mikvah, and so it seems a perfect time to ...
Do you ever find that the books you’re reading—or are putting off reading—seem to be sending you a hidden message? ...
This week, the Jewish community begins reading the third book of the Torah, known in Hebrew as Vayikra, from the ...