View from Israel: Spiritual travel guide
Hillel GoldbergFeb 09, 2012
JERUSALEM In the Holy City, even the silly rises to the saintly; how much more so the saintly itself. Technology cannot mask the silly; indeed, the Holy City has...
What they didn’t tell me on my Bar Mitzvah
Hillel GoldbergJan 26, 2012
This week is my Bar Mitzvah parasha. In my experience, many adults think back to that long ago time of their Bar Mitzvah on its anniversary. I think back not...
Dave Boyles, meet Rabbi Perr
Hillel GoldbergJan 19, 2012
This column is a literary bridge between two people who have never met, never even heard of each other. On the surface, they could not be more different. Dave Boyles...
Does G-d care what happens in a football game?
Hillel GoldbergJan 12, 2012
DOES G-d care what happens in a football game? The falsely pious, the would be pious and many of the earnestly pious respond instinctively: Of course not! G-d cares...
Black hole and the light of faith
Hillel GoldbergJan 05, 2012
Maybe it began when someone first explained to me what a light year is. Traveling at 186,000 miles per second, light beckons us to do the math: 186,000 times 60...
Give me the wisdom not to wait
Hillel GoldbergDec 29, 2011
I REMEMBER sitting outside at the top of a walkway, sandwiched between our apartment building (number 108) and a local yeshiva (Beis Hatalmud). This was in the Jerusalem...
Maybe, at 3 a.m., Steve Savitsky cools down
Hillel GoldbergDec 22, 2011
WHEN people tell me, this is my passion, I am skeptical. I am reminded of a line attributed to Rabbi Abraham Joffen (1885-1969): A person wants to master the...
Jacob’s favors Joseph
Hillel GoldbergDec 15, 2011
The Talmud says that four sages entered the orchard of mystical teachings. One died, one went out of his mind, one apostatized. Only Rabbi Akiva emerged unscathed....
Pearl Harbor Day, 10 years later
Hillel GoldbergDec 08, 2011
I WAS not alive when America was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, nor did my father serve in the armed forces during WW II. While I have no direct memory […]
The Non-Diet diet
Hillel GoldbergDec 01, 2011
Something wrong here. A guy 75 pounds overweight tells you all based on science, of course exactly what the right diet is. You know the routine: People preach,...
