Hillel Goldberg
IJN Executive Editor | hillel@ijn.com
Please, do me one better than ‘have a good winter’
Hillel GoldbergOct 12, 2017
Say that your net worth is $412,000 and a prophet comes along and promises you that in three years your net worth will double, to $824,000. You will rejoice. Sure...
Sukkot: throwing away the winning lottery ticket
Hillel GoldbergOct 04, 2017
Parable #1: Is this guy nuts? He buys a lottery ticket. In fact, he has been buying lottery tickets for decades. Of course, he has never won. But this time, he compares...
Forgiveness and its tricks
Hillel GoldbergSep 28, 2017
Forgiveness is a prerequisite to Yom Kippur. The holiday atones for our sins against G-d, not against people. The sins against people, we need to fix. We need to seek...
Sounds of the shofar
Hillel GoldbergSep 21, 2017
The sound of the shofar is like white light, which, when passed through a prism, is refracted into infinite shades of color. We, the Jews hearing the shofar, are like...
Teshuvah that lasts
Hillel GoldbergSep 14, 2017
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778SECTION A PAGE 4 Needed: A New Paradigm I have yet to meet my first person who says that by the time Chanukah or Passover rolls around, all...
Living on the edge
Hillel GoldbergSep 07, 2017
If you have been to the summit of Mount Evans, words are not needed. If you have not been, words won’t help. Ever since I was a child, Mt. Evans has exercised an...
Historic evening in Denver; Rabbi Lau speaks
Hillel GoldbergAug 17, 2017
Brief introduction, as none is needed. Lights dimmed. For the first time, the former chief rabbi of Israel speaks in Denver. BMH-BJ. Aug. 13. Silence. Aharon. From the...
Nothing
Hillel GoldbergAug 03, 2017
Was he crazy or just frustrated for being the lowest one on the academic totem pole? He was my son’s freshman writing instructor and assigned a topic for a weekly...
People don’t exist anymore
Hillel GoldbergJul 27, 2017
Have you noticed? “People” don’t exist anymore. I do not recall a single instance in which President Obama referred to “people.” He always preferred...
Whoever dies with the most fonts wins
Hillel GoldbergJul 20, 2017
“Whoever dies with the most fonts wins.” This adorned a poster by a former IJN graphics designer. I was reminded of this when I heard a recent pitch on the radio...
