It's that time of year again, when Jewish people everywhere stuff themselves with General Tso's and buy overpriced tickets to the latest Reese Witherspoon flick, desperate to stave off the boredom of another neon-tinted, Christ-loving holiday.
But Denverites refuse to settle for such misery. Instead, they've planned an excuse to get drunk and be merry in their own special way, at Heebonism, a Christmas Eve bash that bills itself as "the largest local gathering of young and youngish Jewish pro
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There are plenty of reasons to enjoy tonight's Jewish Women in Harmony: A Musical Evening for Women at the Shwayder Theater (350 S. Dahlia Street in the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center). One would be the marvelous lineup of talented local songstresses. Another would be the general sense of sisterhood among a multigenerational audience that the production was designed to impart in the first place. But there is also a bonafide star on the bill, too: British-born Jewish ente
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This is a message to all the Chosen: Remember when you were thirteen and you wore your hand-me-down,powder-blue, three-piece suit to celebrate becoming a man? When Aunt Esther pinched your cheek so hard it made your soul hurt? Obviously, your mother was taking pictures of all of this -- and now those pictures could be on a beer can!
Shmaltz Brewing Company, the New York-based brewer of He'Brew, is holding a photo contest to celebrate its thirteenth 13th year. "This year HE'BREW B
Like a good Jew-in-training, I've adopted a ritual of taking down a massive bowl of vermicelli noodles covered in pork before heading to my Intro to Judaism class.
The eternal question, the one no rabbi can answer, is this: Who's serving up the noodles?
Celebrate Denver Arts Week by giving in to the printed word tonight, when author and journalist Arial Sabar speaks and signs his National Book Award-winner, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, 350 South Dahlia Street in the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center, as part of the center's ongoing Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music Festival.
The true story of an all-American L.A. native who learns to underst
