View from Central Park
From the darkness of the impending danger
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 18, 2024
As we stand poised to celebrate another Passover: After the astonishing night of Iran’s missiles and drones shot down without a single casualty, it feels like we...
The next thing you knew . . .
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 11, 2024
Today, on first day of Nisan, it’s hard to feel the joy of an upcoming redemptive holiday. It feels like this war will never end. Despite the IDF having removed ground...
Israel is the canary in the world’s mine
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 28, 2024
Experts in urban warfare at West Point have appraised as excellent Israel’s valiant efforts and accomplishments at not harming civilians on the scale that could...
Scrubbing the streets
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 21, 2024
As Jews and Jewish businesses are attacked, we feel our matrix of American Jewish life suddenly crash into that other matrix, the one of pre-WW II European Jewry, which...
Two chambers in the heart
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 14, 2024
To witness the spirit and emotion of an entire, tight-knit community enveloping this nuclear family with palpable support and love . . . these and so many other sacred,...
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah . . . and Haman
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 07, 2024
What if this whole Hamas nightmare is calculated and premeditated by Iran, placed as a mere appetizer, a preliminary, a dress rehearsal of sorts, to the main course, the...
Right here, right now
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 29, 2024
“Mishenichnas Adar Marbim b’Simcha, with the onset of Adar comes in, joy surges” — such is the usual motif for the Jewish month of Adar, in which the often...
Misplaced mercy
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 22, 2024
When the curiosity and quirk of the lunar calendar presents us with a leap year, thus giving us two months of Adar, we are also given two Purim holidays.
Barrier and insulation
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 15, 2024
While we read about Israel’s sophisticated, daringly brave operation that thankfully and successfully released a duo of hostages in Gaza straight from the claws of the...
The layers of winter, this winter
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 08, 2024
It’s been a real gray spell of gloom and dreariness here in New York. It’s not letting up. Each morning I wake up and I don’t even need to part the curtains to...
