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Winning the battles and losing the war
Hillel GoldbergJun 14, 2012
A LETTER in this weeks IJN is from David Lissy, executive director and CEO of the Masorti Foundation. Masorti in Israel is what is called Conservative Judaism in the...
In praise of low tech
Hillel GoldbergJun 07, 2012
I HAVE three computers in my office: low tech, medium tech, and high tech. The operating system on the low tech computer is MS DOS. No doubt, many people in […]
A pernicious pattern at the UN
Hillel GoldbergMay 31, 2012
Forty-five years ago, in May, 1967, Egypt pushed its troops into the Sinai Peninsula, right up to the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian move was one of many by Egypt in...
Trees and plants grow, not adults
Hillel GoldbergMay 24, 2012
Maybe this is semantics, but please bear with me. A Jewish catchword of the past few years is growth. As in to grow in ones Judaism or to grow as […]
Human rights abuses in China affect us all
Hillel GoldbergMay 17, 2012
FORCED sterilizations. Forced abortions. Imprisonment of people who ask the country to obey its own laws. Enrichment of officials who repress citizens. Violence...
The human bricks of the Third Temple
Hillel GoldbergMay 10, 2012
Spiritual guidance EMOR. Saying. This weeks Torah portion speaks about kohanim. Priests. Pretty remote unless youre a kohen, which most Jews arent....
Rabbi Amsalem’s plan for haredi society
Hillel GoldbergMay 03, 2012
CHAIM Amsalem, a member of Knesset, is a maverick. A learned Sephardi rabbi-politician, Rabbi Amsalem was educated in haredi yeshivas, was elected to the Knesset as a...
My Shoshana
Hillel GoldbergApr 26, 2012
ITS a good thing this book is small. You know, one of those books that looks like an excuse for a book, a couple of inches high, a few pages […]
A journey in many languages: Passover in Israel and Switzerland
Hillel GoldbergApr 19, 2012
CUSTOMARILY, Denvers Rabbi Shlomo Twerski of blessed memory attracted to his Shabbos table a wide variety of seekers and guests. The seekers in the 1960s were varied...
Brown, green, blue (and red)
Hillel GoldbergApr 12, 2012
HAL Linden, the actor and national spokesman for the Jewish National Fund, says the history of JNF falls into three stages: brown, green, blue. In the brown era, JNF...
