View from Central Park
International Bible Contest — a deeper hope
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 16, 2024
In[/dropcap] Israel, the centerpiece of each Yom Ha’atzma’ut is the Chidon Tanach, the International Bible Contest. After Oct. 7, Israel’s youth have come up with...
Two-minute siren
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 09, 2024
As I stood still and absorbed the blaring Yom Hashoah siren that pierced and engulfed Jerusalem, that engulfed all of Israel, so many thoughts raced through my mind....
I want my Columbia back
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 02, 2024
I can still remember the thrill I felt at having the opportunity even to apply to Columbia University’s graduate school of education, Teachers College.
Passover endures
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 25, 2024
Right now, in our time, it feels like we are living those words, just that now “in every generation” has us living as through Southern Israel, part of Nir Oz, part...
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...