View from Denver
Israel: ‘Sharing the burden?’
Hillel GoldbergJun 20, 2013
ISRAEL is tearing itself apart over sharing the burden. On its face, the burden refers to military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In principle, all...
Rabbi Leonard Helman (Santa Fe)
Hillel GoldbergJun 13, 2013
RABBI Leonard Helman was a close friend and a mystery. The Rabbi Different, he was called. Indeed he was. I felt a sense of personal loss when I learned
‘G-d promised Israel to the Jews’
Hillel GoldbergJun 06, 2013
G-D promised Israel to the Jews what does that mean? What is the main issue here? ? What does the idea of a promised land mean? It does not […]
Harold Steinberg
Hillel GoldbergMay 30, 2013
People say they knew someone all my life. Indeed, I knew Harold Steinberg since I was three years old. OK, maybe I exaggerate maybe I was four. When the
All in a day’s work?
Hillel GoldbergMay 23, 2013
All in a days work? I hope not. Normally, the Jewish communitys Walk for Israel would energize my Sunday. It is critical for both Jews and non-Jews in Denver to...
Rosa Parks, ADL, kosher food
Hillel GoldbergMay 16, 2013
WHAT exactly was wrong with the way Rosa Parks was treated? Parks, of course, was the courageous lady who began the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955, a seminal...
There is no joy like the unraveling of doubts
Hillel GoldbergMay 09, 2013
Its a paradox: Ask a believer of another faith whether it is necessary to eat matzah in order to celebrate freedom, to fast in order to atone, or to turn […]
The soil is still moist
Hillel GoldbergMay 02, 2013
I. Soul I know this sounds exaggerated, and in any case will not be understood, but when Chuck Vernoff so much as gave you directions, it came out poetry. Not […]
That drone is above your tree
Hillel GoldbergApr 25, 2013
We have all heard about unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, which play a major part in the war in Afghanistan. The ethical debates about their use in military...
As it is, Holocaust remembrance is doomed
Hillel GoldbergApr 18, 2013
FULL disclosure: There is virtually no time when I am not in the middle of reading a book about the Holocaust, whether a history or a memoir by a […]
