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Edwin Goldberg

Oct 31, 2018, 10:31 AM

Not Quite at Home: Finding a Balance between Security and Compassion

A couple of days ago I was in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is a very happy place to me because during World War II, unlike other countries in Nazi-Occupied Europe, the Jewish community was mostly saved from extermination. What was...

Sep 11, 2018, 3:57 PM

The Dynamics of Dispute

Like many of you I have read some good books this past year. One was by Ron Chernow, who wrote, a few years ago, a biography of Alexander Hamilton. The new one is about President Ulysses S. Grant. I...

Jun 28, 2018, 12:38 PM

We are all Israel now

The day after 9/11/01, there was a headline stating that, after this tragic terror attack, Americans finally understood what Israelis were experiencing every day during the Second Intifada. Soon there would be guards at every coffee shop, just like...

Aug 20, 2017, 1:51 PM

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Ancient Jewish wisdom on the solar eclipse

illustrative photo of a solar eclipse (CC-BY-sancho_panza, Wikimedia Commons)

The sages found a message for humanity in the story of a competition between the sun and the moon

About Me

Edwin Goldberg is the senior rabbi of Temple Sholom of Chicago. He served as the coordinating editor of the new Reform Jewish machzor, Mishkan HaNefesh, and has published many books in the field of Jewish texts and their application to the modern world. His most recent book is Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh, a commentary on the new machzor. He holds a doctorate in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.