View from Denver
Making sense out of Dayenu
Hillel GoldbergApr 05, 2012
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION A PAGE 4 AT Passover time, I am often asked to reprint my interpretation of Dayenu. Here it is: One of the most popular parts of the […]
This isn’t panhandling — it’s climbing the ladder
Hillel GoldbergMar 29, 2012
IF youre ever walking downtown and are approached by somebody selling a newspaper, Denver Voice, I recommend that you buy it. I myself hesitated a split second before...
Kosher doses
Hillel GoldbergMar 22, 2012
Say that you are very ill. A doctor gives you a prescription for a strong antibiotic. The prescription says the name of the antibiotic, nothing more. Just its name. You...
Are we on the eve of another Holocaust?
Hillel GoldbergMar 15, 2012
I thought Robert Wistrich was a committee, and a very old one at that. I was surprised to learn that this author of many large, learned, standard works on anti-Semitism...
Meet the president of Brandeis University
Hillel GoldbergMar 08, 2012
ITS a heavy card: Frederick M. Lawrence. President. Professor of Politics. Brandeis University. Its a heavy job. And the bearer of the job evinces the...
What they didn’t tell me on my Bar Mitzvah
Hillel GoldbergJan 26, 2012
This week is my Bar Mitzvah parasha. In my experience, many adults think back to that long ago time of their Bar Mitzvah on its anniversary. I think back not...
Dave Boyles, meet Rabbi Perr
Hillel GoldbergJan 19, 2012
This column is a literary bridge between two people who have never met, never even heard of each other. On the surface, they could not be more different. Dave Boyles...
Does G-d care what happens in a football game?
Hillel GoldbergJan 12, 2012
DOES G-d care what happens in a football game? The falsely pious, the would be pious and many of the earnestly pious respond instinctively: Of course not! G-d cares...
Black hole and the light of faith
Hillel GoldbergJan 05, 2012
Maybe it began when someone first explained to me what a light year is. Traveling at 186,000 miles per second, light beckons us to do the math: 186,000 times 60...
Give me the wisdom not to wait
Hillel GoldbergDec 29, 2011
I REMEMBER sitting outside at the top of a walkway, sandwiched between our apartment building (number 108) and a local yeshiva (Beis Hatalmud). This was in the Jerusalem...
