The ABC’s of Palestinian land grabs
Hillel GoldbergJan 29, 2015
SOMETHING ABOUT the evidence of the eye contradicts the sales pitch on the printed page and the computer screen. The eye that visits the West Bank sees this: Building....
Wheel of fate
Hillel GoldbergJan 22, 2015
I AM AFRAID to ask their names, although I dont know why. I am afraid of a lot of things. Truly it is irrational, for how can a person just […]
France is over
Hillel GoldbergJan 15, 2015
Roosters or ostriches, however you dice it, Frances prime minister is out to lunch. Before last weeks mass murders in France, one at a kosher supermarket, I wrote of...
Is the exile coming home to roost?
Hillel GoldbergJan 08, 2015
NB: This column was written prior to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9. ONLY A two-year hiatus from...
Cong. Mike Coffman’s Jewish forbears
Hillel GoldbergDec 31, 2014
came to Cong. Mike Coffman intending to get the story of his Jewish forbears. He gave me that, and much more, too. Highlights from our 90-minute conversation:...
CU vs. aches and pains
Hillel GoldbergDec 24, 2014
Like many people, I have benefitted from physical therapists. They make the aches and pains go away. That’s why I was receptive when Pat Grant, a former Colorado state...
Four pieces of beauty from Los Angeles
Hillel GoldbergDec 18, 2014
Last Shabbos in Los Angeles, I bumped into four pieces of beauty: human, generational, material and spiritual. I bumped into . . . Shoelessness on Shabbos. Double...
I’m in debt
Hillel GoldbergDec 12, 2014
CHANUKAH EDITIONSECTION A PAGE 4 Dont you get mail and sometimes you know whats in the envelope even before you open it? For example, wedding invitations seem to...
Philanthropic impulse behind CharityBids
Hillel GoldbergDec 12, 2014
CHANUKAH EDITION SECTION B PAGE 1 Channel. Home Depot. Royal Bank of Canada. Tommy Hilfiger. “All these huge companies are calling us, very conscious of their...
The missing grave
Hillel GoldbergDec 04, 2014
A GRAVE, one might think, is the last thing that could go missing. If only it were so. Besides the millions of Jews incinerated during the Holocaust who never had...