HEAdlines

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 ~ 24 Cheshvan 5784

Click here for information on the rally. 

Community Call to Action:

Countering Antisemitism in a Time of Crisis
Wednesday, November 15, 5:30 p.m., Temple Emanuel
Please join ADL, JEWISHcolorado, Rocky Mountain Rabbis and Cantors, and HEA clergy to learn how our Jewish community is responding in this defining moment and what we can do to respond to the burgeoning antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. Register HERE.

Events & Programs

MONTHLY THURSDAY NIGHT CLASSES: November 9, December 14, January 11, February 8, March 7, April 11, May 16

SESSION I, 6:30 p.m.

• Jewish Genealogy Project, Part I with Rabbi Gruenwald & Sherri Kadovitz
• The Power of Musical Improvisation with Eitan Kantor

• Jewish Genealogy Project, Part 2 with Rabbi Gruenwald & Sherri Kadovitz
• Dialogue Through Difference with Rabbi Shulman & Ismail Akbulut, Director for Multifaith and Intercultural Engagement, Multicultural Mosaic Foundation 

Announcements

COMMUNITY PHOTOS

We would love it if members would share photos from events and activities at HEA or in the community! Please note that if parents share photos with their children, they are providing consent for the photos to be used on the website and print marketing.

Friday & Shabbat

HEAConnect & Community

Special Screening of West Side Movie -
Kesher: The West Side Jewish Connection
Sunday, November 12, 11:00 a.m., AMC Theatre at 8th and Albion (near Trader Joe’s)
We have secured a limited number of free tickets. If you would like to go, please email Mordy.

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Shabbat Calls to Seniors
Please consider volunteering to make Shabbat calls to our Senior members. Calling all cooks! We need help in the kitchen. Contact our Hesed chairperson, Jill Levy for more information.

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Israeli Dance 

Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., 
Have fun while you learn and practice Israeli dance with Joan Saliman, Bev Michaels, and the lively crew who get together each week. No registration is required, but there is a small fee. Contact Joan, 303-912-4322.

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HEA Community Listings

HEROES WITH NO NAMES
A World War II Jewish Resistance Novel
Written by HEA member Bernard Fleischer. Click HERE.

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Escape To The Tatras: A Boy, A War and A Life Interrupted

Written by HEA member Oscar "Osi" Sladek. Click HERE.

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Learn Hebrew with Judi Marcus: Individual Instruction in Hebrew Reading
Judi Marcus offers students wishing to learn to read Hebrew flexible, and individual self-paced tutorials over the phone. Contact Judi at fei31046@aol.com.

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Talliesm by Salha is Ready to Take Orders
Contact Salha today to design your new tallit at salha@earthlink.net – put TALLIS in the subject line, or call 719-502-9312. 10% of all orders from HEA members will go back to HEA. 

Programs & Classes from Jewish Partner Organizations

Jewish Community Healing Initiative 
(Recurring Event) Starts Monday, November 13, 5:30 p.m.
Join therapists Gitit Kaufman, LPC and Dr. Sandra Mann, PsyD, in supported group spaces as we process and reflect on our individual and collective experiences in the wake of events in Israel and rising antisemitism. RSVP HERE for location details.

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Kabbalah Experience begins its winter semester for all experience levels on January 16, offering in-person and virtual opportunities to join us. We are hosting FREE introductory courses on December 5 and January 8. In addition to our free introductory courses, the HEA community can take advantage of a $25 discount on winter semester classes with the promo code HEA25.

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Kol Nashim will be holding its scheduled Text and Context program on Sunday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Music Director Leah Peer will discuss “Anyone Can Sing” by William Ayot. This is one of the pieces the choir will  perform in the 2023-2024 season. Registration and information at www.coloradohebrewchorale.org.

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Get the most out of the HEA Website & Social Media

• Access to your own member account: update yahrzeits, manage your family, streamline event and program registrations...

• View your transaction history, enter payment methods, set up recurring payments, and make donations and payments with your credit card on file...
• Access to the HEA Member directory

How to Add Your Photo to the HEA Directory

If you are a member of HEA and logged into your account...

1. Search the directory for your name to find and open your listing
2. Click the EDIT button on the bottom right side
3. Scroll down and next to the word PICTURE, click UPLOAD A FILE
4. Search your computer files for a photo you want to UPLOAD

Giving Opportunities

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Open Your Heart To Those In Need

Help HEA member Judi Marcus supply much needed hygiene bags for our local homeless community. Please click on the Amazon wish list. You can send the items directly to her home by choosing her address during checkout. If you do, please send her an email. Judy is also collecting whole decks of playing cards to put into this year's holiday bags for the needy. Drop them off in the Tikkun Olam barrel by the door downstairs.

Contact Us

Hebrew Educational Alliance

3600 S Ivanhoe St.
Denver, CO 80237
(303) 758-9400
info@HEAdenver.org
https://HEAdenver.org
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If you have been ill or if you know of a congregant that has been ill or hospitalized, please contact Debbie LeBauer so that the rabbis will be made aware. 

Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald
Senior Rabbi
(720) 390-4439

cell: (303) 999-5250

rabbiG@HEAdenver.org

Rabbi Sarah Shulman
Assistant Rabbi
(720) 244-3342

rabbishulman

@HEAdenver.org

Mallory Bustow
Ritual Coordinator

mallory@HEAdenver.org

Amanda Eckert
Education Director

amanda@HEAdenver.org

Jamie Lambert
Preschool Assistant Director
(303) 758-1462 jlambert@HEAdenver.org

Mordechai Kadovitz
Community & Engagement Event Coordinator

(303) 758-9500
mordy@HEAdenver.org

Eitan Kantor

Music Director

(720) 390-4433

eitan@HEAdenver.org

Teri & Christopher Kenagy
Facilities Operations
(720) 375-5166 tkenagy@HEAdenver.org

Debbie Rosenbluth Buchanan
Executive Assistant to the Clergy
(720) 390-4435 debbie@HEAdenver.org

James McKeon
Communications Director
(720) 390-4421james@HEAdenver.org

Rebecca Paradis
Preschool Director
(303) 758-1462
rparadis@HEAdenver.org

Joyce Perlmutter
Executive Assistant
(303) 758-9400 x 202 joyce@HEAdenver.org

Yuri Tavbin

Youth Director
​​​​​​​(303) 912-3291

yuri@HEAdenver.org

Caryn Osterman
Interim Executive Director

caryn@HEAdenver.org

Dani Wynn
Family Life and Judaic Coordinator
(303) 758-1462 dwynn@HEAdenver.org

Jennifer Zucker
Asst. Director of Education & B'nai Mitzvah Coordinator
(720) 390-4430​​​​​​​

jenn@HEAdenver.org

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 ~ 17 Cheshvan 5784

Events & Programs

MONTHLY THURSDAY NIGHT CLASSES: November 9, December 14, January 11, February 8, March 7, April 11, May 16

SESSION I, 6:30 p.m.

• Jewish Genealogy Project, Part I with Rabbi Gruenwald & Sherri Kadovitz
• The Power of Musical Improvisation with Eitan Kantor

• Jewish Genealogy Project, Part 2 with Rabbi Gruenwald & Sherri Kadovitz
• Dialogue Through Difference with Rabbi Shulman & Ismail Akbulut, Director for Multifaith and Intercultural Engagement, Multicultural Mosaic Foundation 

JNF Education Event: The Struggle with Amalek
Wednesday, November 1, 5:00 p.m.
A special conversation with renowned Jewish thought leader, Avraham Infeld, to explore how to discuss the events of October 7th with your students and congregants, and heed the call to promote positive Zionist education. Zoom link to be provided upon registration HERE.

Join us for a deep dive into the foundations of antisemitism. Our expert presenters will discuss how antisemitism fuels white supremacy and how it manifests itself in the contemporary left. Register HERE.

The Great Challah Bake
Co-Sponsored by HEA Sisterhood!
Thursday, November 2, 7:00 p.m., BMH-BJ
Join 300 fellow Denver women as we bake challah and enjoy Israeli dancing! Click HERE.

Announcements

Youth Choir
HEA’s youth choirs will be performing at our Hanukkah celebration on December 9. Singers in grades K-12 who would like to participate should reach out to Eitan Kantor even if you can't make the first rehearsal). No experience is necessary. Rehearsals are on the following Wednesdays in the Chapel. Grades K-5: 5:30-6:30 p.m.: November 1, 8, 15, 29; December 6. Grades 6-12: 6:30-7:30 p.m.: November 8, 15, 29; December 6. 

HEA COMMUNITY PHOTOS

We would love it if members would share photos from events and activities at HEA or in the community! Please note that if parents share photos with their children, they are providing consent for the photos to be used on the website and print marketing.

Friday & Shabbat

HEAConnect & Community

Shabbat Calls to Seniors
Please consider volunteering to make Shabbat calls to our Senior members. Calling all cooks! We need help in the kitchen. Email our Hesed chairperson, Jill Levy for more information.

_______________________

Israeli Dance 

Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., 
Have fun while you learn and practice Israeli dance with Joan Saliman, Bev Michaels, and the lively crew who get together each week. No registration is required, but there is a small fee. For more information, contact Joan, 303-912-4322.

_______________________

HEA Community Listings

HEROES WITH NO NAMES
A World War II Jewish Resistance Novel
Written by HEA member Bernard Fleischer.

This compelling must-read is set at the time of the Holocaust. The story is not centered on the horror of this period, but on those who came together to destroy the Nazi plan and save the victims. Click HERE.

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Escape To The Tatras: A Boy, A War and A Life Interrupted

Written by HEA member Oscar "Osi" Sladek.

A coming-of-age story set against the collapse of Slovakia and the conquest of the Allied Forces over Germany, learn how one child’s remarkable journey to safety and adolescence encompasses the essence of Jewish life before the war and the overwhelming tragedy of a genocide whose effects are still being felt around the world. Written with the precision of unfailing memory and the pain of personal experience, Oscar (Osi) Sladek tells an unforgettable story of resilience and personal triumph. Click HERE.

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Learn Hebrew with Judi Marcus: Individual Instruction in Hebrew Reading
Judi Marcus offers students wishing to learn to read Hebrew flexible, and individual self-paced tutorials over the phone. Contact Judi at fei31046@aol.com.

_______________________

Talliesm by Salha is Ready to Take Orders
Contact Salha today to design your new tallit at salha@earthlink.net – put TALLIS in the subject line, or call 719-502-9312. 10% of all orders from HEA members will go back to HEA. 

Programs & Classes from Jewish Partner Organizations

Kabbalah Experience begins its winter semester for all experience levels on January 16, offering in-person and virtual opportunities to join us. We are hosting FREE introductory courses on December 5 and January 8. In addition to our free introductory courses, the HEA community can take advantage of a $25 discount on winter semester classes with the promo code HEA25.

_______________________

Kol Nashim will be holding its scheduled Text and Context program on Sunday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Music Director Leah Peer will discuss “Anyone Can Sing” by William Ayot. This is one of the pieces the choir will  perform in the 2023-2024 season. Registration and information at www.coloradohebrewchorale.org.

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Get the most out of the HEA Website & Social Media

• Access to your own member account: update yahrzeits, manage your family, streamline event and program registrations...

• View your transaction history, enter payment methods, set up recurring payments, and make donations and payments with your credit card on file...
• Access to the HEA Member directory

How to Add Your Photo to the HEA Directory

If you are a member of HEA and logged into your account...

1. Search the directory for your name to find and open your listing
2. Click the EDIT button on the bottom right side
3. Scroll down and next to the word PICTURE, click UPLOAD A FILE
4. Search your computer files for a photo you want to UPLOAD

Giving Opportunities

_______________________

Open Your Heart To Those In Need

Help HEA member Judi Marcus supply much needed hygiene bags for our local homeless community. Please click on the Amazon wish list. You can send the items directly to her home by choosing her address during checkout. If you do, please send her an email. Judy is also collecting whole decks of playing cards to put into this year's holiday bags for the needy. Drop them off in the Tikkun Olam barrel by the door downstairs.

Contact Us

Hebrew Educational Alliance

3600 S Ivanhoe St.
Denver, CO 80237
(303) 758-9400
info@HEAdenver.org
https://HEAdenver.org
​​​​​​​
If you have been ill or if you know of a congregant that has been ill or hospitalized, please contact Debbie LeBauer so that the rabbis will be made aware. 

Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald
Senior Rabbi
(720) 390-4439

cell: (303) 999-5250

rabbiG@HEAdenver.org

Rabbi Sarah Shulman
Assistant Rabbi
(720) 244-3342

rabbishulman

@HEAdenver.org

Mallory Bustow
Ritual Coordinator

mallory@HEAdenver.org

Amanda Eckert
Education Director

amanda@HEAdenver.org

Jamie Lambert
Preschool Assistant Director
(303) 758-1462 jlambert@HEAdenver.org

Mordechai Kadovitz
Community & Engagement Event Coordinator

(303) 758-9500
mordy@HEAdenver.org

Eitan Kantor

Music Director

(720) 390-4433

eitan@HEAdenver.org

Teri & Christopher Kenagy
Facilities Operations
(720) 375-5166 tkenagy@HEAdenver.org

Debbie Rosenbluth Buchanan
Executive Assistant to the Clergy
(720) 390-4435 debbie@HEAdenver.org

James McKeon
Communications Director
(720) 390-4421james@HEAdenver.org

Rebecca Paradis
Preschool Director
(303) 758-1462
rparadis@HEAdenver.org

Joyce Perlmutter
Executive Assistant
(303) 758-9400 x 202 joyce@HEAdenver.org

Yuri Tavbin

Youth Director
​​​​​​​(303) 912-3291

yuri@HEAdenver.org

Caryn Osterman
Interim Executive Director

caryn@HEAdenver.org

Dani Wynn
Family Life and Judaic Coordinator
(303) 758-1462 dwynn@HEAdenver.org

Jennifer Zucker
Asst. Director of Education & B'nai Mitzvah Coordinator
(720) 390-4430​​​​​​​

jenn@HEAdenver.org