The 2025 Ellen Diesenhof z”l Scholar-in-Residence program is planned for February 19 - 21, 2025. This an annual event hosted by Congregation Beth Evergreen that is free and open to the broader front range community.  We are most grateful to Ellen and Marty Disenshof, may their memories remain an enduring blessing, for their on-going legacy that lives in this annual offering. 

We are excited to announce that Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald will be our scholar and artist in residence this year.  He will be lending both his artistic talent and his notable scholarship of biblical and rabbinic texts and traditions to our ongoing celebrations for CBE’s 50th [Jubilee] anniversary . 

Rabbi Salomon most recently served the Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver for 16 years. During his time with the HEA he was known for his caring and compassion for all congregants and for cultivating the Denver Jewish community through the wisdom of Torah.  He is also a talented calligrapher of Hebrew and recently trained by the Jewish Studio Project as a facilitator of an innovative approach to learning that brings the transformative power of the arts (and art therapy) to enrich the study of Torah and our relationships to one another.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:  All events are free and open to the Evergreen community.

Wednesday, February 19 
5 pm - The Jewish Studio Project with school-aged youth and their parents
7 pm - “Modern Applications of Ancient Jubilee Traditions - return to the land, release of debts and indentured slaves, restoring familial legacies” 

Thursday, February 20
1 PM - “Creativity and Ethics” with the CBE Mussar group

Friday, February 21
7 PM - “Creative Arts in 21st Century Jewish Life” & a Musical Shabbat Service with Rabbis Gruenwald and Arnold