Denver International Film Festival By Leigh E. Rich Life for Carlos is rough: Too many people love him. And all he must do is decide—a gargantuan task of which this 30-something seems particularly incapable. Poor, poor man. A Brazilian romantic comedy reminiscent of Sliding Doors, Possible Loves tells the story—well, three stories—of Carlos, a lawyer […]
05.18.2001
Article distorted pediatricians’ statement on children in war By Leigh E. Rich An article written by Tom Tugend of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (“60,000 US pediatricians oppose use of children in battle,” May 11, 2001, IJN) “does not accurately reflect” the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent statement reaffirming the UN Convention on the Rights of […]
05.04.2001
Holocaust survivor brings hope, museum to Denver By Leigh E. Rich Henry Greenbaum has a story to tell. And he tells it every Friday. Before Shabbat—he promises any rabbi who might be sitting in the room—Greenbaum recounts his coming of age under the Nazi regime. Now 75 and a volunteer with the speaker’s bureau at […]
03.23.2001
Jack Weil turns 100 By Leigh E. Rich What’s the view like from the other side of 100? Not many live to tell the tale or, if they do, few can spin a yarn about the last century as the affable, Jack A. Weil, who officially becomes a centenarian next Wednesday, March 28. Born in […]
02.23.2001
The story of Devorah and Daniel By Leigh E. Rich If there ever were a classic case of beshert, it would be the story of Daniel Bennett and Devorah Uriel. A classic case of fate taking its time, that is. Married for a little less than nine months now and both in their 40s, Bennett […]
02.16.2001
Rep. Tom Tancredo promotes embassy move By Leigh E. Rich Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado’s congressman for the Sixth District, introduced a resolution in the House Tuesday for the immediate relocation of the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—Israel’s capital—noting that the move is a “proposition whose time has come.” “Relocation of the American Embassy […]
01.26.2001
AIDS cure? Not yet By Leigh E. Rich Advances in science, despite the recent flurry over completion of part of the Human Genome Project, are slow and incremental. Good science, that is. In the IJN Dollars and Sense Special Section this week, we portray Dr. Leland Shapiro, assistant professor of medicine at CU Health Sciences […]
01.26.2001
Just maybe, a CU professor is on to it By Leigh E. Rich More like a “James Bond plot” than stereotypical science, CU Health Sciences Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Leland Shapiro, has “discovered a candidate” that could lead to a pharmaceutical treatment for AIDS, an immunological disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus […]
12.15.2000
Categories: People, Religion, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Denver ‘mohel’ undergoes training in Israel
Pediatrician apprentices under Josef HaCohen Halperin By Leigh E. Rich Dr. Kenneth Katz, a local pediatrician and mohel, recently visited one of the most renown and well-respected mohelim in Israel this past August—Josef HaCohen Halperin, chief mohel for Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem. Katz traveled to Israel for the sole purpose of apprenticing under Halperin […]
11.10.2000
Craig Nassi, aka Mr. Golden Triangle, develops an idea By Leigh E. Rich One man, three buildings and a golden idea have furthered the City of Denver’s Frankenstein-like resurrection of the Golden Triangle into an urban residential locale. The city rezoned the area bounded by Speer Boulevard, Colfax Avenue and Lincoln Street in 1994, hoping […]
