# @denverjewishdayschool on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcj5dfrimOk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69856530-denverjewishdayschool-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T22:49:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Denver Jewish Day School (@denverjewishdayschool) — https://gondola.cc/denverjewishdayschool

## Caption

For this Throwback Thursday, we’re celebrating a Tiger who has gone from the halls of DJDS to some pretty unexpected places—and still knows his way back home. 🐯

Sam Kaufman, Class of 2010, joined us as the special guest at our first Upper Division assembly of the year, returning to the Strear Family Gym where he spent plenty of time as a DJDS student himself.

From the Strear Family Gym to the stage of agt as a member of humanfountains —alongside fellow DJDS alumni—and now back again, Sam’s story is a pretty great example of something we love about this place.

💙 For so many of our alumni, DJDS is where they first found their people, discovered pieces of themselves, tried new things, and built relationships that lasted well beyond graduation. They’ve gone on to do some pretty incredible (and occasionally very unexpected) things—but those connections have a way of bringing them back.

There’s something very poignant about watching a former Tiger stand in the same gym where he once stood up as a student, spitting water for a Color War lip sync, but this time sharing his journey with the students sitting there now, who are just beginning to think about their own. 

Because you never really know where these hallways will take you. But you can always find your way home. As you'll hear a lot around this campus, it all connects here.

#ThrowbackThursday #DJDSTigers #OurDJDS #WhyDJDS #TigerPride #DJDSAlumni #ItAllConnectsHere #AlumniSpotlight #SchoolCommunity

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itallconnectshere, schoolcommunity, djdstigers, ourdjds, djdsalumni, throwbackthursday, tigerpride, whydjds, alumnispotlight

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