David K. Shipler, "The New York Times" correspondent in Israel at the time, later wrote of Goldberg in "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land": "I sat over these questions [about the Sabra and Shatila massacres] with my friend Hillel Goldberg, a young lecturer at Hebrew University in Jewish ethics and intellectual history. He was a religious man with a graceful, fine precision of compassion in his reasoning, and our long discussion brought a valuable clarity to my own thinking."