Hillel Goldberg
IJN Executive Editor | hillel@ijn.com
Counting money
Hillel GoldbergApr 29, 2021
It was long ago. Not only the time before cellphones in Israel, but even before the time that most people had phones in their own homes. That’s the way it was when I...
Lips murmuring from the grave
Hillel GoldbergApr 22, 2021
I doubt whether there was a single Jew on the globe with the practical Jewish skills of Rabbi Yisrael Gornish, who left us last week. He was a mohel. A shochet. A shofar...
Israel’s Consul General in LA
Hillel GoldbergApr 15, 2021
a certain point in our interview, I asked Dr. Hillel Newman, 56, the Consul General of Los Angeles: “Do you sleep?” As he listed the scope of operations of the...
The Heavenly Jerusalem
Hillel GoldbergApr 15, 2021
Tradition speaks of the earthly Jerusalem and the Heavenly Jerusalem. For me, the earthly Jerusalem is already in Heaven. When we came to Jerusalem in 1972, where we...
Blessed is the ache
Hillel GoldbergApr 08, 2021
I could rue Israel’s endless political gridlock, or bemoan the missing screw in the Pesach pot that used to hold its knob in place, or wonder what will be, given mass...
I must be living in the wrong country
Hillel GoldbergApr 01, 2021
Either my perception is badly blunted, or I am living in the wrong country. My life is so odd, so unlike what I am told is pervasive out there. Here it is, in my office...
Lift-off!
Hillel GoldbergMar 25, 2021
PASSOVER EDITION 5781 SECTION A PAGE 4 My mentor and friend, Rabbi Yisroel P. Gornish says, “I love Pesach. Pesach is a different world.” Indeed. Something as...
Finley puts a local touch on senior living
Hillel GoldbergMar 18, 2021
We may characterize Susie (Reimer) Finley by 3 C’s: commanding presence, confidence and competence.
This is what I came away with from meeting with a person who...
The prism: messages prompted by a bifurcated gravestone
Hillel GoldbergMar 18, 2021
The son of Bela Rubinstein (1908-1967) always wondered why his father sustained a youthful appearance even into old age. Bela Rubinstein was rosy-cheeked and wrinkle...
Equity vs. equality
Hillel GoldbergMar 18, 2021
If all that “equity” connoted in current discourse were “equality,” this column would not be written. The emergence of “equity” as a political and ethical...
