Niles Goldstein
By Niles Goldstein
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Community I kayaked the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Don’t let Trump ruin it.
Almost 20 years ago, I led a small group from my congregation in New York’s Greenwich Village on a kayaking trip in the Beaufort Sea, along the northern coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. We were only miles from the part of the refuge that the Trump administration just announced it would…
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Community A Kol Nidre for 2020
Ashamnu — I confess, I am guilty. On this Kol Nidre, after the terrible year that we have all experienced — that we are still going through — I feel discouraged & pessimistic. It is hard to see light at the end of this tunnel, to envision our community & our nation acting in ways…
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Opinion How A Rock-Climbing Harness Is Like A Set of Tefillin
This article was first published in The Forward on May 21, 1999. The terrain reminded me of the Negev, especially as I gazed out over it from high above the desert floor: coarse sand, prickly shrubs, sandstone cliffs. A rope was the only thing that protected me from injury or death. I was leading a…
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Opinion The Gory Bloodsport That Brought Father And Son Together
A few months before I began rabbinical school in Jerusalem, my father proposed that we take a trip to Nepal. I was 22 and in the middle of writing the Great American Novel, but I didn’t mind the interruption. I welcomed the prospect of trekking together through the rugged and remote mountain kingdom, a father…
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