In the Loup is a bimonthly publication of the
Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center
and the Mizel Arts & Culture Center
350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, CO 80246.
Featured Stories
Features
Denver Jewish Community Reads…2008
“By introducing our first Denver Jewish community book read, our hope is that a sense of one large community, brought together by its consideration of the same ideas, will emerge. We call it building community, one book at a time.”
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
By Diane Ackerman W.W. Norton & Company, 2008
This critically acclaimed, bestselling book is a true story in which the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo and his extraordinary wife saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw, and the city’s zoo along with it. With many of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jewish people into empty cages. Other “guests” hid inside the Zabinski’s villa, emerging after dark. With exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina Zabinski refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of humanity and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.
Special JAAMM Art Workshops
Glass Fusion Workshop ($50) Adults Sun., Oct. 26, 1—4:30 p.m., Greinetz Art Studio Instructor: Jenny Werner Jenny Werner, Local artist and educator is back by popular demand to teach the adult version of our popular summer art class for kids! Create a window hanging and a pendant or magnet using the techniques of glass fusion. The workshop fee includes all materials and firing.
Rosh Hashanah Card Making Workshop and Contest (Free)
Grades 1—6 Sun., Nov. 9, 2–4 p.m., Greinetz Art Studio Instructor: Risa Towbin Aqua Participate in this exciting free art workshop and your work may be selected for the annual Rose Community Foundation Rosh Hashanah card! The Foundation plans to select one image and one greeting to be reproduced on its 2009 Rosh Hashanah card.The selected individuals will be acknowledged on the card and will each get to distribute $500 to the charities of their choice. Pre-registration is recommended. Call (303) 316-6360.
Diane Ackerman is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, among many other books of nonfiction and poetry. She lives in upstate New York.
