IJN Cast

“Our effort is to support one another and to sort of rebuilt trust in humanity,“ says Rabbi Jamie Arnold, reflecting on last week’s school shooting in Evergreen. 

Get into the mind of a rabbi crafting the all-important High Holiday sermon with Rabbi Rick Rheins. When it comes to using AI, he says: “There have always been those who will take the easy road out.  You can’t cheat your congregation.“ 

Recent IJNCast guest Yuval David on Hannah Einbinder.

Plus other peeks into our four-section Rosh Hashanah newspaper and L’Chaim® magazine!

“But I said I'm sorry!” Dean Rotbart on publishing a new children's book written by his wife Talya Rotbart, that hits on the themes of the High Holidays. Plus a peek into this week’s IJN, including audio from the Jewish baseball action late last month from Joc Pederson and Rowdy Tellez that broke an 87-year-old record.

“Too Jewish, or not Jewish enough.” Actor Yuval David: “Too For as long as I’ve been in the entertainment industry, I’ve noticed a sort of silencing and erasure of specific Jewish narratives.” Post-Oct. 7 life for Jewish, Israeli and Zionist in Hollywood. 

Plus a peek into this week’s IJN!

Follow Rabbi Hillel Goldberg's travelogue as he traversed Colorado terrain from Vail to Steamboat Springs and back to Denver. Also in My Two Shekels — Cracker Barrel & kugel.

Faye Lincoln of Salt Lake City, president of Cong. Kol Ami and daughter of Holocaust survivors talks about some of her disappointments during a recent trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. “I was angry at the whitewash of the Jewish historical experience” she says. 

“The best and worst day of his life,” released hostage Or Levy says of the day he was returned to Israel. Levy was in Colorado this week, speaking at Chabad South Metro Denver.

Plus artist Brad Goldberg, who designed a new memorial in Brest, Belarus, and a peek into this week’s IJN!

Stephen Grynberg helped restore a forgotten Jewish cemetery in Brest (Brisk) Belarus — the town his father Jack escaped at 8 years of age to escape the Holocaust. Artist Brad Goldberg designed the memorial that was unveiled last month.

Plus, a peek into this week’s IJN!

An abridged episode as the IJN heads into its pre-Rosh Hashanah schedule. Host Steve Mark takes you into the pages of this week’s IJN, with a front page banner, Tensions Over Israel. Plus audio from freed hostage Emily Damari.

Host Steve Mark takes you into the pages of this week’s power IJN, with special guest Rabbi Shira Stutman, who was recently formally installed as rabbi at Aspen Jewish Congregation. “I fell in love with the people,” shares the rabbi, who hails from the East Coast.

Host Steve Mark takes you into the pages of this week’s IJN, with special guest David Zvi Kalman, whose op-ed on AI is this week’s Lively Opinion. Kalman is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and host of the podcast “Belief in the Future.”

Former Denverite Jessie Wolfe Zimble delivers her new son in an Israeli hospital bomb shelter!

And, Denver's Jewish community member Dr. Robert Salehrabi discusses his Iranian heritage in the midst of conflict with Iran.