The Journey to a Better Tomorrow Begins Today A Message from Rabbi Edwin Goldberg November 9, 2016 This morning many of us in this country and congregation feel as though they are in mourning. I Read more…
Can we talk about things that annoy us? Every day brings us an array of stuff that tries our patience. You buy something that needs to be assembled, and the instructions don’t make sense. You’re Read more…
Shanah Tovah. You may or may not like it, but I promise this day I am not going to speak about the current presidential campaign; I mean, hasn’t enough been said already? And yet, I Read more…
I am sure that many of us have been watching the Olympics. This year’s Olympics has had a historic first: a team of 10 athletes who are displaced persons from South Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Read more…
These days, as you well know, Chicago is filled with tourists. Some will even venture up the top of our various Sky Scrapers and go to balconies that APPEAR to be outside and then they Read more…
This week NBC5 Chicago aired a segment on how they helped me convince Macy’s to stop harassing me for thousands of dollars of credit card charges that I never made. The bills started coming many Read more…
Chaim Grade was a poet of the mid-twentieth century in Europe. The son of a Hebrew teacher, he received a religious and secular education. He became one of Lithuania’s greatest interpreters of Jewish literature. He Read more…
A story I heard yesterday from an Israeli journalist: A call goes out to all nations to find a way to take human beings to Mars. The United States announces a plan that will take Read more…
A Passover Message from Rabbi Edwin Goldberg An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the Read more…
A Report from AIPAC Rabbi Edwin Goldberg March 21, 2016 Washington, DC – I always figured this year’s conference would be electrified by the presence of presidential candidates in an election year. I had not Read more…