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- Boulder communities and the greater Rocky Mountain Jewish community (

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). The newspaper was founded in 1913 and had a series of editors before being taken over by Robert Gamzey and Max Goldberg in 1943. Since then the newspaper has been owned and operated by the Goldberg family. As of 2021 Rabbi Hillel Goldberg is the editor and publisher.

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said that the Denver Jewish News would become a "permanent feature of Denver's newspaper field." The newspaper was the official organ of the Central Jewish Council of Denver, which had been founded in 1912 by community leaders including Rabbi Charles E. H. Kauvar of Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol or BMH (now known as

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, attorney and philanthropist Milton Anfenger, and Dr. Charles David Spivak of the

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The Intermountain Jewish News

In 1925, the ''Denver Jewish News’'' then editor and

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economics professor Abraham D. H. Kaplan renamed the publication the Intermountain Jewish News to reflect its wider range. Notable editors and publishers included: Hattie Schayer Friedenthal (editor, 1917–1922), State Senator A.B. Hirschfeld (publisher, 1929–1943) and Carl Mandell (editor, 1933–1943). In 1943, in the face of ongoing financial strains, the Central Jewish Council approached Max Goldberg, a Denver journalist and ad man, to take over the paper. Goldberg, together with Robert Gamzey, took ownership of the newspaper. Max Goldberg served as publisher from 1943 to 1972. Upon his death in 1972, Miriam Harris Goldberg took over as editor and publisher and stayed in the role until her passing in 2017. In addition to weekly publication, ''IJN'' publishes special editions approximately once a month, including three magazines: ''L'Chaim'' magazine (fall and spring) and ''Generations'' magazine (summer). Once every five years the IJN publishes a souvenir anniversary magazine. The 95th-anniversary magazine was published on July 7, 2008. The 100th-anniversary magazine was published on June 24, 2013. The 105th-anniversary magazine was published on June 25, 2018. Syndicated columnists appearing in the ''IJN'' include

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, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and

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. ''IJN'' is a member of the

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(AJPA) and the Colorado Press Association.

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