View from Denver
Tax incentive or tzedakah incentive?
Hillel GoldbergDec 28, 2017
Few people will really know how the new tax bill will affect their charitable deductions until they prepare this year’s taxes and figure out their deductions, if any....
Maximizing waste
Hillel GoldbergDec 21, 2017
is not about money. This is not about animal rights. This is not about asceticism vs. materialism. This is not about kids in Africa who don’t have enough to eat. This...
Stan ‘the Man’ (oops, make that Michael) Staenberg
Hillel GoldbergDec 14, 2017
The Staenberg name is now up on the JCC, “the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center.” The Staenberg name was un-known in Denver just a few years ago. Michael...
Other people’s menorahs
Hillel GoldbergDec 07, 2017
CHANUKAH 5778 SECTION A PAGE 4 Isn’t this odd? Do nothing, yet get something. This is the reality in one context of Jewish spirituality, which otherwise does not work...
Inversion: It’s not just weather. It’s wisdom.
Hillel GoldbergNov 30, 2017
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — Oscar Wilde I admit, I didn’t think of the weather and climatic inversions when Avi Mehler, last Friday...
In 100 years, everything — and nothing — changed
Hillel GoldbergNov 23, 2017
I am one who still tingles at anniversaries — overcome by gratitude or chastened in horror, depending on the anniversary, and, in both cases, feeling that by knowing...
Underground and overground: medicine in Haifa
Hillel GoldbergNov 16, 2017
medicine. It’s not what you might think it is. Not experimental drugs with outsized promise and undersized evidence. Not far-out therapies for people sick enough,...
One + one ≠ two
Hillel GoldbergNov 09, 2017
Any writer for a public forum naturally wishes his work to be read as widely as possible. Although I know it is unrealistic, I would urge those with one or more living...
I forgot. She remembered.
Hillel GoldbergNov 02, 2017
forgot. She remembered. “I” (i.e., me) is the person who has absolutely no recollection learning about Herzl’s Zionism, Rashi’s commentary, Maimonides’ code,...
Noel Ginsburg is running for governor
Hillel GoldbergOct 26, 2017
Ginsburg is an activist and the son and husband of activists in the Jewish community and beyond. He heads a successful commercial enterprise, Intertech Plastics, and a...
