Hillel Goldberg

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg is an American newspaper publisher, author, scholar of modern Jewish history, and student of the Musar movement. He is editor and publisher of the ''Intermountain Jewish News'' in Denver, Colorado, and an ordained rabbi.

Early life and education

Goldberg was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He later reflected on the independent streak of Jews in the West, including Denver, that shaped him. Goldberg began his journalism career as a student at George Washington High School, where he published ''Tempo'' magazine with Richard Gould. ''Tempo'' was featured in ''Time''.

Higher education

Goldberg attended University of California Berkeley, where he tutored minority children in music in Oakland, 1964-1965, and wrote on the Free Speech Movement for ''Frontier'' magazine. He completed his undergraduate degree at Yeshiva University, where he was a leading student activist, founding the university's chapter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1965; tutoring for Head Start in Harlem 1965-1966; co-leading the effort to save the books at Jewish Theological Seminary after a fire in 1966; co-organizing the effort to send volunteers to Israel on the eve of the Six Day War in late May and early June 1967; and founding an underground student newspaper, ''Pulse'', in 1968. Goldberg earned a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Journalism

Goldberg became editor and publisher of the ''Intermountain Jewish News'' in 2017. He had previously served as executive editor. His mother Miriam Goldberg and father Max Goldberg published the newspaper before him (Miriam from 1972-2017; Max from 1943-1972). Goldberg’s weekly column �
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Goldberg has worked for the ''Intermountain Jewish News'' since 1966. From 1972-1975 he was its Jerusalem correspondent, then from 1975 to 1983 its Israel correspondent. Throughout, he wrote a weekly column, "The View from Jerusalem", for the ''Intermountain Jewish News'', and reviewed books for the ''Jerusalem Post''.

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