Not six words. Just two
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 17, 2020
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5781 SECTION D PAGE 19 It’s hard to come up with the words to sum up a year marked by a global pandemic, especially knowing it’s still raging...
Mental health, out of the shadows
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 10, 2020
While these days we might all be walking around masked, in a twist of irony and paradox, COVID has actually ripped the mask off of so many aspects of our lives. Among...
Pandemic — an opportunity for schools
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 03, 2020
Just as many school openings were delayed in Denver, in New York we just learned that the famous East Coast post-Labor Day back to school time has been delayed by a...
The med masks, memento masks
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 27, 2020
How did this COVID-19 pandemic get me thinking about Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs, and Rabbi Akiva’s declaration that all of the Jewish canon is holy, but Shir...
‘You raised me up’
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 20, 2020
The other night, I was approaching Broadway and 98th when I passively registered that a woman walking with her two dogs toward me on my left was thanking a tall black...
A welcome summer delight
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 13, 2020
In anticipation of the coronavirus lockdown ending, I had called around to some local farms, planning to go berry picking as soon as I was able. After being in a...
Compassion for the victims in Lebanon
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 06, 2020
Watching the smoke engulfed scenes from the Beirut Port are heartbreaking. So many theories about the chemistry of what may have triggered this ammonium nitrate...
Slower, friendlier, calmer, softer
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 23, 2020
Air travel has always been a part of my life. But due to COVID I have not traveled since the beginning of January — until last week. Just like so much else around us...
Goya
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 16, 2020
If only I had had a photograph, not only of my pantry at the time of when coronavirus commenced, but of the table I had set up in our living room filled with the...
Privilege
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 09, 2020
As I continue reading article after article, I am genuinely perplexed by the term that keeps reappearing: “privilege.” Specifically, “white privilege.” A certain...
