View from Denver
Is there a single ethical ideal?
Hillel GoldbergJul 25, 2019
What is the ethical ideal? Is it always altruism? Pirkei Avot states in the name of Antigonus: “Be not like servants who serve their master with the expectation of...
Provocative thoughts
Hillel GoldbergJul 18, 2019
Provocative thoughts I recently ran across: • A letter to the New Yorker from Devin Schindler: “It’s noble to agree with Dostoyevsky’s observation that ‘it is...
Jewish Family Service today
Hillel GoldbergJul 11, 2019
If we include its predecessors, Jewish Family Service of Colorado is the oldest Jewish community organization in Colorado. One would think that by now everyone knows...
The Biblical text, frozen and unfrozen
Hillel GoldbergJul 03, 2019
Clearly, the Hebrew Bible is a book of history. It is filled with biographies, narratives, wars and historical journeys — with the lives of Abraham and Sarah, the...
Who gets to define a hate group?
Hillel GoldbergJun 27, 2019
How do we prevent “hate” from becoming a badge of honor? By defeating all haters and hate groups, I would hope. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The fight...
Silences speak loudly, words echo softly
Hillel GoldbergJun 20, 2019
So I have been told: Rabbi Gershon Liebman (1905-1997) went through Nazi slave labor camps and the concentration camps not only with his body intact, but with his...
Shavuot in a time of rising anti-Semitism
Hillel GoldbergJun 06, 2019
What does the upcoming holiday of Shavuot teach at a time when American Jews are under attack from the right and the left? From the right we have the white supremacists...
Clerk and Recorder
Hillel GoldbergMay 30, 2019
It’s not music, as in the recorder. It’s not the coveted goal of law school graduates, as in the clerk to a Supreme Court justice. But if you’re a Denverite and...
Being in two places at one time
Hillel GoldbergMay 23, 2019
One of my long term goals is to be in two places at one time. I could finally meet all of my obligations. Actually, I’m getting closer to my goal. Although I can’t...
Denver Health aims to ‘change the world’
Hillel GoldbergMay 16, 2019
For Robin Wittenstein, Ed.D., it’s all one river flowing into the sea. The sea is “changing the world” and the staging ground is Denver Health. For the CEO of...
