Tehilla R. Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park

New Yorkers: cramped spaces, open hearts

Are New Yorkers nice? Of course, you can’t generalize about eight million people. But New York has always had that tough reputation for...

Shavuot, Ruth…beginning anew

This week we will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, marking G-d’s revelation at Mount Sinai and the gift of the Torah. On Shavuot we open...

Segues of our lives: F and B

Life’s points of departure are always a challenge. How do you leave a life or a world behind and embrace a new, different one? Navigating...

Good and bad

Something difficult happened the other day when someone’s knee jerk reaction was blithely declaring that everything G-d does is for the best. They proceeded with a...

Sixty Years Young

The modern state of Israel is six decades — 60-years-old, yet she seems so young. When walking the land, living the Israeli life, or...