View from Denver
Why he walked away from $1 billion
Hillel GoldbergDec 05, 2013
WHAT do all of the following have in common? Two people marry. It doesnt work from the start. They give it a good try, counseling and everything, but they are...
Are there limits to human solidarity?
Hillel GoldbergNov 28, 2013
A SCENARIO in a genocide: I am part of a targeted group. The enemy demands that the group turn over a specific member of the group to be put to […]
Every person a prophet
Hillel GoldbergNov 22, 2013
MOST people can make at least of the following statements: I moved to [fill in the name of the city.] Im not even sure why. It was the best decision […]
Jews away from home
Hillel GoldbergNov 15, 2013
JEWS at home are in Israel. What about the Diaspora is Jewish history in the Diaspora the history of persecution? Two more radically different answers could hardly be...
Anti-Semitism: the compliment vice pays to virtue
Hillel GoldbergNov 07, 2013
QUITE apart from the evil of anti-Semitism the incessant murder of Jews, or prejudice against them is it not odd that one people throughout history has been picked...
Isaac has no speaking part
Hillel GoldbergOct 31, 2013
ISNT this odd? Rebeccah says to her husband Isaac: My life could end on account of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth […]
Which come first, tears or words?
Hillel GoldbergOct 24, 2013
DO tears follow words? Or do words follow tears? Abraham ascends the mountain to kill his son Isaac. G-d stops Abraham at the last moment. Hearing this, Sarahs soul...
Who is the real you?
Hillel GoldbergOct 17, 2013
“Everybody has superhuman physical, emotional, spiritual or intellectual strengths, way beyond what they think. “You hear stories to this effect all the time. “A...
Born circumcised
Hillel GoldbergOct 10, 2013
THE Greeks who tried to destroy Judaism in the times of the Chanukah story were perceptive. They knew their Judaism. They sought to ban just three out of 613 Jewish...
From honoring parents to honoring G-d
Hillel GoldbergOct 03, 2013
MARK Twain once said, I was born to poor, but dishonest parents. A humorist of lesser renown, the late Fred Englard of Denver, once commented on the Jewish dictum,...
