{"id":2455107,"date":"2020-02-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321597"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:00:00","slug":"the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of Aspen\u2019s Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5744047619048\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-321597-295\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-1-1024x695.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3977272727273\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4545454545455\">\n<p><strong>Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-1-1024x695.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-1.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-1-1024x695.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-3-850x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.90909090909091\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8.1818181818182\">\n<p><strong>on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-3-850x1024.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-3.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-3-850x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-4-1024x734.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A man reading prayers during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3875\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4\">\n<p><strong>A man reading prayers during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-4-1024x734.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-4.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-4-1024x734.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A man reading prayers during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-5-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A menorah glows outside of the Aspen Jewish Community Center on a Saturday evening.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.390243902439\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4146341463415\">\n<p><strong>A menorah glows outside of the Aspen Jewish Community Center on a Saturday evening.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-5-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-5.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-5-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A menorah glows outside of the Aspen Jewish Community Center on a Saturday evening.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-6-1024x712.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Rabbi Emily Segal leads a Shabbat candle ceremony at the Aspen Chapel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3772727272727\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.3454545454545\">\n<p><strong>Rabbi Emily Segal leads a Shabbat candle ceremony at the Aspen Chapel.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-6-1024x712.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-6.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-6-1024x712.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Rabbi Emily Segal leads a Shabbat candle ceremony at the Aspen Chapel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-7-1024x718.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A basket of yarmulkes sit by the front entrance of the Aspen Chapel before Friday Shabbat service.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.4021739130435\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4782608695652\">\n<p><strong>A basket of yarmulkes sit by the front entrance of the Aspen Chapel before Friday Shabbat service.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-7-1024x718.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-7.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-7-1024x718.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A basket of yarmulkes sit by the front entrance of the Aspen Chapel before Friday Shabbat service.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-8-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-8-823x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A man holds a Jewish text during a Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3783783783784\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.3513513513514\">\n<p><strong>A man holds a Jewish text during a Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-8-823x1024.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-8.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-8-823x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A man holds a Jewish text during a Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-9-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-9-1024x658.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A congregation sings during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3865546218487\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.3949579831933\">\n<p><strong>A congregation sings during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-9-1024x658.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-9.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-9-1024x658.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A congregation sings during a Friday night Shabbat service at the Aspen Chapel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-10-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-10-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel..\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3984962406015\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4586466165414\">\n<p><strong>Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel..<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-10-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-10.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-10-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel..\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-11-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-11-1024x677.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Aspen Middle School students watch an emotional film about the Holocaust at the end of the Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. January 27th has been designated by the United National as a day of commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust and as a day to educate about the genocide. This year is the 75th anniversary of the closing of Auschwitz death camp. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.49058577405858\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11.774058577406\">\n<p><strong>Aspen Middle School students watch an emotional film about the Holocaust at the end of the Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. January 27th has been designated by the United National as a day of commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust and as a day to educate about the genocide. This year is the 75th anniversary of the closing of Auschwitz death camp. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-11-1024x677.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-11.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-11-1024x677.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Aspen Middle School students watch an emotional film about the Holocaust at the end of the Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. January 27th has been designated by the United National as a day of commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust and as a day to educate about the genocide. This year is the 75th anniversary of the closing of Auschwitz death camp. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-12-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-12-1024x711.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Aspen Middle School students and faculty stand on the stage holding hands and singing to John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d at the conclusion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Decorated butterflies are displayed on stage to represent the children that passed through and died in the concentration camps. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.48970251716247\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11.752860411899\">\n<p><strong>Aspen Middle School students and faculty stand on the stage holding hands and singing to John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d at the conclusion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Decorated butterflies are displayed on stage to represent the children that passed through and died in the concentration camps. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-12-1024x711.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-12.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-12-1024x711.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Aspen Middle School students and faculty stand on the stage holding hands and singing to John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d at the conclusion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Aspen District Theater on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Decorated butterflies are displayed on stage to represent the children that passed through and died in the concentration camps. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-13-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-13-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Mark Parnass leads a morning Kaddish prayer circle in the gallery of the Aspen Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.47593582887701\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.5187165775401\">\n<p><strong>Mark Parnass leads a morning Kaddish prayer circle in the gallery of the Aspen Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-13-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-13.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-13-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Mark Parnass leads a morning Kaddish prayer circle in the gallery of the Aspen Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-17-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-17-1024x676.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | The Star of David hangs on the wall of the Aspen Chapel during a Friday night Shabbat.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.3928571428571\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4285714285714\">\n<p><strong>The Star of David hangs on the wall of the Aspen Chapel during a Friday night Shabbat.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-17-1024x676.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-17.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/jewish-atw-022720-2-17-1024x676.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"The Star of David hangs on the wall of the Aspen Chapel during a Friday night Shabbat.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The Shabbat candles had been lit, the wine and challah were set and the group soon broke out into song, slapping the table and tambourines in rhythm as their melodious prayers filled the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Most of these people were family or close friends. But a few had just met and were welcomed to join in the weekly Jewish Sabbath, or Shabbat tradition carried out in Itzhak and Dalia Vardy\u2019s home each Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">For the Vardys, it doesn\u2019t matter who walks through the door \u2014 all are welcome to celebrate Shabbat and learn about the Jewish way of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cEvery Friday night people come to our house. Our home is our center, our home is our temple,\u201d Itzhak said. \u201cAll are welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote p402_hide\" readability=\"2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>The fact that there are three different organizations doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re competing, it just means there are three different offerings for everyone and anyone who comes to Aspen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">In the U.S., 4.4 million people religiously identify as Jewish, and 60,900 people identify in Colorado, according to the Steinhardt Social Research Institute\u2019s 2019 American Jewish Population Project data. That\u2019s about 1.8% of the U.S. population and 1.4% of the Colorado population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Aspen\u2019s vibrant Jewish community of today traces its roots to gatherings much like the scene at the Vardy home on Shabbat and has grown to include three separate Jewish organizations whose influences extend up and down the valley.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><span>HUMBLE BEGINNINGS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Although there were Jewish people who called Aspen home in the 1890s, the local Jewish community as known today dates back to 1973, when a group of residents started meeting first for the high Jewish holidays, then weekly for Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Led by Gideon Kaufman, a lawyer who volunteered to serve as a layman rabbi and spiritual leader for 35 years, the gatherings grew to include a few dozen locals at the Aspen Community Church and various Aspen area homes, then to the over 200 individuals and families part of the Aspen Jewish Congregation that meets at the Aspen Chapel today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cIt\u2019s extraordinary what Gideon did,\u201d said Edward Sanditen, who has been a member of the Aspen Jewish Congregation for nearly 40 years. \u201cSaying he was a part-time clergy understates the importance of what he did and the sincerity and integrity he did it with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">In the early \u201980s, Sanditen remembers assisting Kaufman every Shabbat and helping tutor young students studying for their bar or bat mitzvah, the coming-of-age ritual for boys and girls, at the old Shlomo\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Then known as the Aspen Jewish Center, it was run solely on volunteers, Sanditen explained, operating more like a family than anything else with lots of spontaneity and little structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">By 1986, the center had moved into the downstairs space at the Aspen Chapel, still as the only organized Jewish congregation in the area. The congregation would join the Union for Reform Judaism \u2014 a progressive form of Judaism \u2014 in 2007 and three years later ordained clergy began leading services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">By that time in 2010, there also were two other distinct Jewish organizations in Aspen. There was even a fourth Jewish organization in Aspen for a short time, Sanditen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cFor a long time the community was very happy as it was, but as it grew people began to want more from the congregation, so we moved to a professional rabbi and clergy,\u201d Sanditen said. \u201cIt became bigger and more structured. The members of our congregation were always involved in the community as individuals, but what started to evolve was for the congregation as an entity to get involved in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Like Sanditen, Shereen Sarick, an ordained rabbi and former Hebrew School director for the Aspen Jewish Congregation, has also witnessed the evolution of the city\u2019s longest running Jewish congregation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Sarick first moved to Aspen from Washington, D.C., after high school, worked a variety of jobs including as an environmental educator for the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, left for a few years, then came back to open up the congregation\u2019s first formal Hebrew School at the Aspen Chapel in 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cI thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019ve been teaching nature education for so long and here I am trying to help kids save the Earth, maybe if you take a step back and first help kids fall in love with themselves then that kid can fall in love with the birds and the water and the mountains and want to do something,\u2019\u201d Sarick said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">That first fall, Sarick said she had 30 to 40 kids at the Hebrew School. By May of 1996, that number more than doubled to 96 kids enrolled, and kids were even skipping hockey practice to attend classes, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cThey came out of the woodwork,\u201d Sarick said. \u201cI\u2019m still close with many of the students. Some of the kids\u2019 bar and bat mitzvahs I did, I\u2019ve done their weddings and their baby namings and they\u2019re still in my life. They\u2019re the next generation now, which is really nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Sarick recalled working alongside Kaufman, who she referred to as the patriarch of Judaism in the valley, singing at his Shabbat services and teaching with the Vardys for her first three years with the Hebrew School. She then left Aspen for New York and Toronto while her husband pursued business school and work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As she returned, new Jewish institutions were launching in Aspen. The Vardys formed the Neshama Center, an educational nonprofit, and the Chabad community center, a more Orthodox sect of Judaism, was established in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cIt\u2019s not uncommon for there to be multiple synagogues,\u201d Sarick said, emphasizing the wide array of Jewish sects and movements, namely Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Renewal. \u201cFor a tiny Jewish population like the Roaring Fork Valley? It\u2019s a little surprising we have three but certainly not uncommon. \u2026 As far as ski towns go, I think we have the most diverse and vibrant and largest Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><span>A SPECIAL PLACE <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As Sarick noted, the Aspen Jewish Congregation may be the oldest but it isn\u2019t the only Jewish organization in Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Locals and visitors also attend services and events at the Chabad Jewish Community Center, which opened its new $18 million building\u2019s doors in 2014 but first came to Aspen in the early 2000s, and is one of roughly 2,500 Chabad branches worldwide. Locals and visitors are also welcomed by the Neshama Center, an educational nonprofit led by the Vardys that is not housed in one place but has aimed to bring Jewish traditions, history and life cycle celebrations to the Roaring Fork Valley in an open and inviting way since 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Three Jewish congregations based in a town of roughly 7,000 people is unique, given that Jews make up less than 2% of the state\u2019s population. But as many Jewish locals like Sarick and Alan Altman \u2014 who attends the Chabad Jewish Community Center \u2014 emphasized, Aspen is no typical small town and each Jewish circle helps meet the needs of the larger Aspen Jewish community as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cWe have an international city here. Because it\u2019s an international city, people come for all sorts of reasons from all over the world, and there\u2019s a need for a diverse, faith-based community,\u201d Altman said, emphasizing that religious needs don\u2019t go on vacation. \u201cThe fact that there are three different organizations doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re competing, it just means there are three different offerings for everyone and anyone who comes to Aspen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">While Altman said he\u2019d love to see the entire Aspen Jewish community unite under one roof, he doesn\u2019t feel it\u2019s necessary, as he feels each local congregation offers something unique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">In his case, Altman said he and his wife were drawn to the Chabad center about 14 years ago when it was what he referred to as a shack on West Main Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The two newly full-time residents spent their first Saturday morning in Aspen looking for a Shabbat service, Altman recalled, first trying the Aspen Jewish Congregation at the Aspen Chapel but quickly realizing the group held its services Friday nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As they drove their motorcycle down Main Street, Altman said they were surprised to see a building with a menorah on it. \u201cWe were just riding into town when we got to the corner and said, \u2018Oh my gosh, there\u2019s a Chabad here,\u2019\u201d Altman said. \u201cIt surprised me to find such a vibrant Jewish community here. We thought it was just a sleepy little ski town but the culture and the people make this a remarkably inclusive community, even though it\u2019s thought to be exclusive from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">On a recent Saturday morning more than a decade later, Altman was at Shabbat service in the relatively new Chabad Jewish Community Center\u2014a 19,000-square-foot facility among the most prominent buildings on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As sunlight illuminated the upstairs synagogue space, Rabbi Mendel Mintz led Altman and roughly 30 others in attendance through hymn, prayer and the weekly Torah reading, which he followed with a short sermon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cHere Moshe (Moses) comes out and says that real Jews and real Judaism only speak one language, and that is that we don\u2019t have biases, that everyone is equal,\u201d Mintz said in response to the reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Mintz and his wife are celebrating their 20th year in Aspen, where he said they\u2019ve raised their six children and aimed to promote Jewish awareness, identity and pride through the Chabad center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Over the past two decades, Mintz feels the Jewish community has built on the foundation people like Kaufman created in the early \u201970s, and that the Chabad center in particular has grown to become a space for the entire valley community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The center hosts art exhibitions and at least 30 guest lectures a year, not all related to Judaism, and has a Kosher kitchen, cycling studio, youth game and activity center, and more, Mintz said. He explained that there is no center membership, but that there can be anywhere from 30 to more than 100 people at Shabbat each week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cWe follow the traditions of Judaism in an easy-going environment that\u2019s all inclusive and gives people the opportunity to learn, connect and be a part of something greater than themselves,\u201d Mintz said. \u201cIf you asked me 15 years ago about how I dreamed people would come together through the center, that dream is not as good as it actually is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">When asked if there is something about the Aspen area that draws Jewish people or caters to the Jewish way of life more than other places, Mintz said he feels Jewish people don\u2019t move to the valley for their religion; they\u2019re drawn to the area for a multitude of reasons and the fact that there is a diverse Jewish community only adds to these reasons, maybe even contributing to why they try to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The Vardys, who moved to Aspen from Israel more than 30 years ago, expressed similar thoughts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cThere\u2019s something about this beautiful place that brings in people, they are chosen to be here,\u201d Itzhak said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of sharing of knowledge here and it\u2019s a good place to share knowledge. People feel safe to come teach and to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">For Itzhak, coming to Aspen and seeing Judaism practiced in a way rooted in openness and friendship was one of the best and most welcoming experiences of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">He and his family felt called to form the Neshama Center about 14 years ago, Itzhak said, aiming to meet what they saw as a need for an organization focused on education and Jewish tradition that supplements the existing Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Since the Vardys formed the Neshama Center, they\u2019ve focused mainly on Jewish traditional, cultural and historical education loosely aligned with Jewish Renewal ideals, traveling through the Roaring Fork Valley and across the world to help carry out life cycle rituals like weddings, baby namings and bat or bar mitzvahs, and have hosted an annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony to teach Aspen-area students and locals about the genocide as more than just a death toll for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Itzhak said he and Dalia hope to grow their Holocaust education efforts and to continue facilitating Jewish life lessons, traditions and celebrations, keeping their focus on meeting the needs of all valley locals for years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cWe grew into teaching, people just started to ask us to do it more and more,\u201d Itzhak said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we decided to do this, we organized this group due to the need of the people. \u2026 I don\u2019t think our way is different, it\u2019s whatever way people need it, traditional or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><span>KEEPING COMMUNITY <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">In the art gallery of the Aspen Chapel on a Friday evening after Shabbat service in January, roughly 30 locals held hands and grasped shoulders, all linking to connect with the people holding a plaited bread loaf, or Challah, by their fingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">After a short blessing, the fingers pulled apart the Challah and each person helped himself or herself to a taste, followed by more food, drink and conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cThe goal for Jewish community is to connect Jewish people and those who love them to Jewish life and have it bring them meaning and purpose,\u201d said Emily Segal, rabbi of the Aspen Jewish Congregation. \u201cIt\u2019s all about that connection point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Segal, who has led Aspen\u2019s long-standing Jewish organization for the past three years, said this is the premise she\u2019s worked to build from as a local rabbi: helping people connect with the Jewish faith in whatever way works best for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">With that mission at the forefront, Segal said the Aspen Jewish Congregation has aimed to do more for families up and down the Roaring Fork Valley, hosting Shabbat in Carbondale once a month, Shabbat just for kids, Jewish life educational series for all ages, leading social justice initiatives and putting on various other events that help Jewish people engage in their faith in new ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cAs a rabbi, I view a major part of my role as helping people pave paths to find deeper meaning and in-roads into the Jewish faith,\u201d Segal explained. \u201cThe ancient wisdom is timeless. It elevates lives and when people are elevated they can help make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As all of the local rabbis and congregants highlighted, the Aspen Jewish community has and will continue to evolve. Families come and go, needs change, and all three organizations have goals to educate and together serve the larger valley community moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">But even though the community isn\u2019t the largest or most diverse in America, all of these Jewish people also feel their faith experiences in Aspen are unique for reasons not easily articulated \u2014 reasons many feel will keep Judaism and spirituality vibrant into the future here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cWhat I knew growing up is that being a part of a minority is a special thing,\u201d Segal said. \u201cIt\u2019s a treasure to be Jewish and we are so lucky to live and benefit from ancient wisdom. The lesson I learned later in life is that sometimes when you are surrounded by folks in a larger Jewish community, it\u2019s easier to take it for granted. But what I see here reminds me of what I saw growing up. There are special connections happening in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><span><em><a href=\"mailto:mvincent@aspentimes.com\">mvincent@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/the-evolution-of-aspens-jewish-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Emily Segal leads a congregation through a Friday evening Shabbat at the Aspen Chapel.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Buy Photo on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. 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