Hillel Goldberg
IJN Executive Editor | hillel@ijn.com
Letter from Jerusalem
Hillel GoldbergJan 26, 2023
All of Israel screams one word: Future! Reflections on visiting Jerusalem by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg.
A Rich Life
Hillel GoldbergJan 19, 2023
A book about Richard Male’s life, A Rich Life, is not an autobiography, nor was it written years ago. It was written under the sword hanging over Male’s head these...
I am not an American! Perish the thought!
Hillel GoldbergJan 12, 2023
“Fascism pretending to be manners.” “Bias hunters.” “Rank absurdity.” “Big Brother is watching you.” “Intellectual morons.”Such are the stingers...
Is democracy in Israel in danger?
Hillel GoldbergJan 05, 2023
Israel is not the United States. Israel has no Constitution, so the High Court in Israel cannot rule on the constitutionality of any law the Knesset passes.
Where does the gift of generosity begin?
Hillel GoldbergDec 29, 2022
Let’s start with the cover of Ruchi Koval’s Soul Construction: Shape Your Character Using 8 Steps from the Timeless Jewish Practice of Mussar. Whew! What a heavy...
Pliable as a reed, piercing as lightning
Hillel GoldbergDec 22, 2022
There is only one person who could console me for the loss of my deep, deep friend and teacher, Rabbi Nathaniel Lauer. And that is Rabbi Lauer himself.
The ultimate ‘action at a distance’
Hillel GoldbergDec 15, 2022
Here is something that Einstein could not explain. Nor could the pioneering ophthalmologists conducting a clinical trial to alleviate “Leber hereditary optic...
Two parallel clinics. One fatal. One not.
Hillel GoldbergDec 08, 2022
Ignaz Semmelweis’ story is told by Siddhartha Mukherjee, who has unsettled my prejudice that beauty in writing is to be found only in the humanities, never in science.
Restoring tikkun olam to the rainbow
Hillel GoldbergDec 01, 2022
“To redress the grievances of those who are abandoned and alone, to protect the dignity of the poor, and to save the oppressed from the hands of his oppressor.”
What was the dispute between Jacob and Esau?
Hillel GoldbergNov 24, 2022
Did Jacob steal Esau’s birthright (Genesis 25:25-34)? If so why does the Bible hold up Jacob, not Esau, as the paradigm of truth?
