Vegetarian Passover? Don’t panic!
Shana GoldbergApr 11, 2024
When you find out that one of your Shabbat or holiday guests is vegetarian — or worse, vegan — do you panic? Where among the shmaltz-laden potato kugel and roasted...
Whose values?
Shana GoldbergApr 11, 2024
Mine was one of the 180,000 letters that were written to President Biden last week to mark the 180th day since Oct. 7, the 180th day that innocent people continued to be...
End of an era?
Shana GoldbergApr 04, 2024
The passing of Joe Lieberman highlights how fractious politics in our country has become. Could a truly centrist, largely non-partisan, non-sound-bytey politician like...
Team Israel hockey players headed to Colorado
Shana GoldbergMar 28, 2024
In mid-April, a group of special guests will be in Colorado for a unique opportunity. From April 11-April 14, the Big Mountain Hockey Conference will welcome Team...
What’s the secret?
Shana GoldbergMar 28, 2024
Many of us are familiar with the famous Mark Twain quote in which he marvels at the continued existence of the Jewish people, when so many other nations have ceased to...
Crazy pills
Shana GoldbergMar 21, 2024
I’ve got my costume all figured out for Purim — Jacobim Mugatu from the classic early aughts movie “Zoolander.” There’s a line of his that since Oct. 7 has...
Santa Fe — Jewish vignettes
Shana GoldbergMar 14, 2024
Vignettes of Jewish Santa Fe: Rabbi Berel Levertov, Prof. Ron Duncan Hart and Rabbi Jack Shlachter talk about Jewish life in northern New Mexico, including Los Alamos....
Lowest of the low — got lower
Shana GoldbergMar 14, 2024
It is often a good thing in life to be humbled. And boy, have I been humbled. I wish it weren’t so. Not out of pride, but because my forced […]
For Israeli who faced violence in Berkeley, Wyoming is ‘friendly and polite’
Shana GoldbergMar 07, 2024
Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who spoke at a Solidarity with Israel event today in Cheyenne outside of the Wyoming State Capitol, has had an eventful 10 days. The IDF soldier who is...
Coffee’s on me
Shana GoldbergMar 07, 2024
Reading continues to be my mental escape five months into the war that began Oct. 7. Amid a plethora of psychological thrillers, I’m re-reading many childhood...