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Hillel Goldberg

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Why remembering Kristallnacht is important

THERE are two types of memory: spiritual and historical. Or, put it this way: There is memory from the point of view of G-d and memory from the point of […]

One person can make 25,000 differences

I was intrigued. Immediately. First, it was a reunion. I like reunions. But I couldn’t imagine what this one would be like. Intrigued — and more than intrigued. Even...

Be fruitful and multiply

NOT once, not twice, but three times the Torah instructs humanity, “Be fruitful and multiply.” Is this a good idea, with the human population scheduled to reach seven...

Speaking to empty rooms

THIS week would have been the 100th birthday of my father. Where the old West Side Jewish community of Denver once stood, along the banks of the Platte River, there...

Is it racist for Jews to date only Jews?

Is it racist for Jews to date only Jews? The question presupposes one of two possibilities: either a fundamental attachment to humanity, a universal reach, beyond the...

Surviving the Holocaust physically and theologically

Today’s neighbor is tomorrow’s history. That dispute in shul, that fellow who made a splash and then moved away, that person whose amazing accomplishments you gloss...

Five media myths about Israel

I WAS asked to speak on “Israel in the Secular Press” at a community briefing last Sunday, called in light of the crisis at the UN, the Palestinian attempt at...

The traffic is edgy, Rabbi Olshin is not

WE often think that because a person holds a high position, he is special. We forget that it is the other way around. Because he is special, he came into […]

End of summer

Maybe it is because that wonderful, little-kid summer feeling that stays with us forever, but the end of summer brings with it a pang of melancholy. Well, maybe not for...

The Catholic who saved 2,500 Jewish children in the Holocaust

A FANATIC is focused. Nothing extraneous to the mission is allowed to impinge on a fanatic’s consciousness or schedule. Irena Sendler was a fanatic . . . for saving...