View from Denver
The FBI and me
Hillel GoldbergNov 19, 2020
“Oh, Rabbi Goldberg, we will send you a copy of the book, but you won’t need to pay. Please, just write a review.” Me? A review of a book about the FBI? What do I...
‘Settled science’ and ‘things he shouldn’t say’
Hillel GoldbergNov 12, 2020
Do not look at the extreme partisan rhetoric to discern the worst poison in our political discourse. Look instead to the cool, restrained, seemingly objective,...
P.G. Waxman, of blessed memory
Hillel GoldbergNov 05, 2020
The word is so overused, but I have no other word: I loved P.G. Waxman. The sweetness. The sincerity. The vulnerability. The reaching out. Not afraid to show his...
Whose dogma?
Hillel GoldbergOct 29, 2020
“Even paranoids have enemies,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is supposed to have quipped. Does being religious in America today automatically earn one...
Excessive force
Hillel GoldbergOct 22, 2020
A man was shot dead in downtown Denver by a security officer hired by 9NEWS. As to whether the officer, who has been charged with second degree murder, acted in...
A companion for Genesis
Hillel GoldbergOct 15, 2020
If the medium is the message, then next to the stark, calligraphic beauty of the Torah scroll itself is the beauty of Genesis: A Parsha Companion (Maggid, 2019),...
It’s not me
Hillel GoldbergOct 08, 2020
It sounds absurd. It cannot be true. But it is. It is the truth: The author of the book did not write the book. Neither did the sculptor of the statue sculpt the statue....
Teaching the Holocaust — excruciating pitfalls
Hillel GoldbergOct 01, 2020
Colorado public and charter schools are now mandated to teach the Holocaust and genocide under the bill passed last June and signed in July. The intent is good. The...
Mercy
Hillel GoldbergSep 24, 2020
It’s got a long name, but a short, beautiful mission: healing kids. Kids who need help. Big help. It’s the mission of ALYN Hospital, “Pediatric and Adolescent...
Dreams never dreamed
Hillel GoldbergSep 17, 2020
Shall we begin with the negative side? Or the positive side? It doesn’t matter, it’s all the same side. If it were necessary to determine which group suffers most...
