View from Denver
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...
The new face and vision of Shwayder Camp
Hillel GoldbergMay 09, 2019
Woe to the contemporary Jewish summer camp if it thinks it can do what camps did decades ago and succeed. Nice surroundings. Nice counselors. Nice programs. And the kids...
Sharp and Soft
Hillel GoldbergMay 06, 2019
Sharp and Soft. Two ways people treat each other, and the way people are treated. Can Sharp and Soft inhere in a single person? Can a person be both? Should a person be...
Dayyenu is enough — really?
Hillel GoldbergApr 18, 2019
This ode to Passover was first published in the IJN in 1982 and has occupied this space before Passover many years since. ONE of the most popular parts of the Passover...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #48
Hillel GoldbergApr 11, 2019
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #48, “Cite the source of your words.”...
