View from Denver
Uncle Tom
Hillel GoldbergNov 28, 2019
What if Uncle Tom was not an Uncle Tom? What if the derogatory connotation was born not only after the novel (1852), but even after the end of slavery? We look at the...
Yes, directly, Moses speaks to me
Hillel GoldbergNov 21, 2019
More venerable than the Kaddish, older than the Haggadah, earlier than Chanukah and Purim. A sense of Jewish history connects a Jew to his roots. It can also cloud...
Dr. Tawfik Hamid: Reformist Muslim, friend of Israel
Hillel GoldbergNov 14, 2019
What am I doing here? Studying with a Talmudic commentator on the Koran? With a Muslim who bumped into a rabbi in an airport and was taken with midrash? Who is this man:...
What happened to California?
Hillel GoldbergNov 07, 2019
I love Los Angeles, the palms, the weather, the beach, the friends, the kosher restaurants. I spent a year in college in Berkeley, living high in the Berkeley Hills,...
Long-term future of the Jewish people
Hillel GoldbergOct 31, 2019
Cliff Savren penned an essay in the Columbus Jewish News whose title appears in the headline of this column. Savren opened: “A headline this month in the Jerusalem...
When I learned a lot from something
Hillel GoldbergOct 24, 2019
The two-part essence of Judaism Last Week, Part I: Perspective This Week, Part II: Values I wrote last week about one side of the essence of Judaism —...
When I learned a lot from nothing
Hillel GoldbergOct 17, 2019
When you learn something from nothing, it sticks. If I recall that nothing that happened to me even 45 years later, there must be a reason. Permit me to share with you...
From the marriage license to the ball field
Hillel GoldbergOct 10, 2019
AP reports that three couples planning to get married in Virginia filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state requirement that they disclose their race on their marriage...
Coming in from a different place
Hillel GoldbergOct 03, 2019
Hasn’t everyone had a flat tire, missed a flight or boarded a plane intending to land in one city but ended up in another? We have all found ourselves in a different...
Masters of the courtroom
Hillel GoldbergSep 26, 2019
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5780 SECTION A PAGE 4 In 2018 in Denver, on the Shabbos between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Rabbi Steven Weil delivered a lecture on repentance,...
