Rabbi Hillel Goldberg is an American newspaper publisher, author, scholar of modern Jewish history, and student of the Musar movement.
[1] Goldberg began his journalism career as a student at George Washington High School, where he published Tempo magazine with Richard Gould.
[3] 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.
[18] In the 1980s he served as a lecturer in Modern Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and taught Musar at Jerusalem Torah College (BMT).
Numerous yeshiva deans and heads of musar organizations describe his book The Fire Within as life-changing, with Dr. Alan Morinis, founder of The Mussar Institute, writing "it was the introduction to my spiritual lineage....it holds a special place (for me).
[22]" Rabbi Micha Berger notes it was the book "which inspired me to explore musar," a topic which was to become central to his life as founder of the AishDas Society.