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Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, PhD is the editor and publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News, for which he has been writing award-winning commentary for over 50 years. His latest book is Across the Expanse of Jewish Thought.

Image extracted from Page 087 of “The King’s Handbook of New York City … ,” 1893, originally held and digitized by the British Library. Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is HIAS hiding a behind an anonymous acronym?

It no longer says to refugees, “It is Jews who are helping you.”

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

July 2, 2025

The funeral of Israel Defense Forces Col. Ehsan Daxa in Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel, who died in battle in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 21, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Five reasons to be depressed about the war

If the century-long Palestinian rejection of political pluralism continues to be rejected at its root, what hope is there for the future?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Oct. 23, 2024

The Associated Press Television News building in London. Credit: Metroskop/Benjamin Holler/Wikimedia.

An Associated Press non-response

Why can't the media organization correct a distortion of its reporting on the Oct. 7 massacre?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Jan. 15, 2024

A man whose father was murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 searches the rubble of his home for family mementos in Kibbutz Be'eri, Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Chen Schimmel/Flash90.

Israel isn’t moving on

Jews had come to assume that the Holocaust would “never again” happen; now we know that if it could, it would.

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Dec. 31, 2023