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Mosque at Ground Zero? Makes as much sense as . . .
Hillel GoldbergSep 02, 2010
I AM in favor of the Cordoba House being built at Ground Zero, because, you know, there is no context, no emotion, no meaning, no memory that attaches to a […]
Is memory part of Islam?
Hillel GoldbergJul 29, 2010
OFTEN, debates are most revelatory about critical issues that the debaters think they are not debating. This occurred recently in an exchange in Critical Inquiry, a...
The loneliness of the elderly
Hillel GoldbergJul 22, 2010
Elka Popack, former head of senior programming at JCC, has founded Smile on Seniors, an organization that encourages people to visit seniors, if only one hour a...
The Prime Ministers: from agony to humor to insight
Hillel GoldbergJul 15, 2010
NO one in the world knows, save a few pilots, Israels very top military brass, its prime minister and a few other ministers. No one in Israel knows, no one […]
Did an Israeli Ashkenazi school bar Sephardi students?
Hillel GoldbergJul 08, 2010
DID a chasidic Ashkenazi school in the town of Emmanuel, Israel bar Sephardi students? Based on some of the reporting and on the Internet banter on the question, one...
The two powerful whitenesses in the Torah
Hillel GoldbergJul 01, 2010
A MIDRASH says that the Torah is black fire on white fire. Others observe that the spaces between the letters of the Torah are as significant as the letters themselves....
Coming soon to a state near you: an immigration crisis
Hillel GoldbergJun 24, 2010
WE might as well have been in a forest fire, for all the heat generated in Phoenix, and I dont mean the 103° weather. A panel on immigration reform at […]
Mayor Abutbul relishes building Bet Shemesh
Hillel GoldbergJun 17, 2010
THIS would be unimaginable in an American city a stark reminder of the difference between this country and the Middle East. I am sitting with Moshe Abutbul, mayor of...
I am pessimistic about peace
Hillel GoldbergJun 10, 2010
JERUSALEM There is nothing like a trip to Israel to sober one up about the realities here. They make so much more sense than the ethereal world of diplomacy....
Eye-openers in Israel
Hillel GoldbergJun 03, 2010
JERUSALEM The Jewish state that Prime Minister Netanyahu demands that Palestinians recognize as such is certainly not all Jewish. I refer not to Israeli Arabs,...
