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Quarantines, physical and emotional
Hillel GoldbergJun 23, 2022
The conditions for quarantine are clearly set forth in the Torah, but what is supposed to happen if one is in a state of quarantine? On this, the Torah is more or less...
What is the Torah?
Hillel GoldbergJun 09, 2022
I discovered that even when I could not grasp the meaning in the Torah, even on the simplest level, the Torah could envelop me. Could elevate me. Could connect me.
If laughter is the best medicine…
Hillel GoldbergMay 26, 2022
If laughter is the best medicine . . . then I am the finest doctor. OK, not really, but at least I know where to turn for the best medical textbook: The 776 Stupidest...
Who are the people of faith?
Hillel GoldbergMay 19, 2022
Who are the people of faith? A reflection on shmita.
Everyone’s priesthood
Hillel GoldbergMay 12, 2022
Perhaps the most universal wellspring in the Torah — the teaching that grips all good people ever since the time of Aaron the High Priest — is the priesthood,...
Does it really matter?
Hillel GoldbergMay 05, 2022
We had a story from JTA last week which addressed a controversy: whether a male should be the rabbi-in-residence of a woman’s magazine, Women’s Day. Opponents were...
Don’t speak to me
Hillel GoldbergApr 28, 2022
“Activists” — don’t you just love that term for haters? — pronounced last week in Manhattan, “We don’t want no two state, we want all of it . . . Israel...
Top 10 signs you were at a GOP — or Democratic — seder
Hillel GoldbergApr 21, 2022
Top 10 signs you were at a GOP seder; top 10 signs you were at a Democratic seder.
Dayyenu is enough — really?
Hillel GoldbergApr 14, 2022
PASSOVER EDITION 5782 SECTION A PAGE 4 This ode to Passover was first published in the IJN in 1982 and has occupied this space before Passover many years since. ONE...
Zelensky is right on the Holocaust
Hillel GoldbergApr 07, 2022
I am cutting Zelensky slack for his invocation of the Holocaust in his speech to the Knesset, but for a very different reason than others.
