Hillel Goldberg
IJN Executive Editor | hillel@ijn.com
Should we topple Confederate statues (or Auschwitz)?
Hillel GoldbergJun 25, 2020
Confederate statues should be toppled, many say; and many have been toppled. The statues represent hate and glorify racism, the argument goes; and who wants to be...
Stark, simple, incandescent
Hillel GoldbergJun 18, 2020
A Lonely Creation G-d’s oneness is not a unity of pieces. It is unique, absolute; there is no human analogy to G-d’s oneness. Only G-d is absolutely one. And yet,...
Blurred terms bar solutions
Hillel GoldbergJun 11, 2020
Is it really so difficult to state two obvious truths? One, the relationship between many if not most African Americans and the police is fraught with distrust and deep...
At the precise moment
Hillel GoldbergJun 04, 2020
Historians have long observed that it was no accident that the first time an entire people apprehended the one G-d was in the the desert, where nothing moves, nothing...
It’s not normal
Hillel GoldbergMay 28, 2020
It’s as if I’m at the baseball park and wonder where I am. It’s not that I’m losing my mind. I know I’m at the baseball park — but why am I here when I want...
A life of contradictions
Hillel GoldbergMay 21, 2020
I have never seen so much pain, nor had so much gratitude. I have never experienced so much quiet, yet been so aware of the news. I have never had so much kindness from...
Be careful what you pray for
Hillel GoldbergMay 14, 2020
All of my prayers have been answered. I was not careful what I prayed for. I prayed that we return to the pre-9/11 days when there were no security lines. My prayer has...
COVID-19 ethics — fighting the last war
Hillel GoldbergMay 07, 2020
Last week a group of distinguished physicians wrote a letter to the IJN noting with satisfaction that all of the heinous distinctions that the Nazis imposed during the...
Mordechai
Hillel GoldbergApr 30, 2020
“Mordechai.” When I came into my wife’s family decades ago, I met not only my in-laws but their relatives and friends, fascinating people, all of Hungarian stock...
What does it mean to be alive at this time?
Hillel GoldbergApr 23, 2020
What does it mean to be alive at this time, during this unprecedented period in the lives of every person now alive? In the midst of crisis, it is difficult if not...
