View from Denver
The life of Ahmed Jibril
Hillel GoldbergJul 22, 2021
The Talmud says that after a person dies, G-d judges a person based on these questions: Did you deal honestly in financial matters? Did you fix times for Torah study?...
Critical race theory — why?
Hillel GoldbergJul 15, 2021
Am I missing something? I attended Denver Public Schools, K-12, 1951-1964. We learned about the Civil War. We lived in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. We...
Where were you on July 14, 1920?
Hillel GoldbergJul 08, 2021
Where were you on July 14, 1920? Probably not at “the largest Jewish gathering ever held in this city” [Denver], where Jews and gentiles rejoiced “that the Peace...
Jewish electricity
Hillel GoldbergJul 01, 2021
Paranoia. Lazy thinking. Racism. Jewish chauvinism. Choose your nouns. Choose your synonyms for the idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is beyond politics. Beyond...
Life under the rock
Hillel GoldbergJun 24, 2021
I must confess, life under the rock is quite comfortable. Another story in this week’s IJN begins, “Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely...
Another Hamas-Israel war is inevitable
Hillel GoldbergJun 17, 2021
Not a single cause of the recent war between Hamas and Israel has been removed, or is even planned to be removed. Without radical change in Gaza, another Hamas-Israel...
A lonely creation
Hillel GoldbergJun 10, 2021
G-d is one. As a representation of G-d, the number 1 is unique, but there is a human corollary of G-d’s oneness: aloneness. When I am alone in prayer, Iam […]
Don’t think
Hillel GoldbergJun 03, 2021
One cause of the corruption of our political discourse is the routinization of words or phrases that pass for reality but mask a malady: the absence of thought. Three...
In search of inner peace: Psalms 131
Hillel GoldbergMay 27, 2021
Psalms 131 is my favorite psalm. It is only three verses long. It grabs my gut because, at least the way I read the psalm, it addresses this fundamental of […]
COVID vaccinations for children?
Hillel GoldbergMay 20, 2021
I am vaccinated and am happy I am vaccinated. I encouraged everyone I know to get vaccinated. I would say the same for children if — and it’s apparently an
