View from Denver
Lips murmuring from the grave
Hillel GoldbergApr 22, 2021
I doubt whether there was a single Jew on the globe with the practical Jewish skills of Rabbi Yisrael Gornish, who left us last week. He was a mohel. A shochet. A shofar...
The Heavenly Jerusalem
Hillel GoldbergApr 15, 2021
Tradition speaks of the earthly Jerusalem and the Heavenly Jerusalem. For me, the earthly Jerusalem is already in Heaven. When we came to Jerusalem in 1972, where we...
Blessed is the ache
Hillel GoldbergApr 08, 2021
I could rue Israel’s endless political gridlock, or bemoan the missing screw in the Pesach pot that used to hold its knob in place, or wonder what will be, given mass...
I must be living in the wrong country
Hillel GoldbergApr 01, 2021
Either my perception is badly blunted, or I am living in the wrong country. My life is so odd, so unlike what I am told is pervasive out there. Here it is, in my office...
Lift-off!
Hillel GoldbergMar 25, 2021
PASSOVER EDITION 5781 SECTION A PAGE 4 My mentor and friend, Rabbi Yisroel P. Gornish says, “I love Pesach. Pesach is a different world.” Indeed. Something as...
Equity vs. equality
Hillel GoldbergMar 18, 2021
If all that “equity” connoted in current discourse were “equality,” this column would not be written. The emergence of “equity” as a political and ethical...
She said, ‘I’ll stick with my shrimp’
Hillel GoldbergMar 11, 2021
Uncharacteristically, there was quite a line at the fish counter at Whole Foods. While waiting, I tried to make small talk with the person in front of me, and asked what...
The pandemic’s first year
Hillel GoldbergMar 04, 2021
In the Jewish mindset, the severity of the pandemic set in around Purim, 2020 — about one year ago. Rabbi Ron Y. Eisenman of Passaic, NJ, remembers mentioning to one...
Joel Orent
Hillel GoldbergJan 28, 2021
This is one of the most difficult columns I have ever had to write. One of the first people Elaine and I met when we moved to Boston shortly after our marriage was Joel...
Hermine Blau
Hillel GoldbergJan 21, 2021
In every community there is a small number of special people captured by the adjective “colorful.” They attract attention not because they try to but because of who...
