Tehilla R. Goldberg
IJN columnist | View from Central Park
UNRWA has failed the Palestinians
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 01, 2024
UNRWA was launched over 75 years ago to deal with the plight of Middle East refugees, including Jews. They bowed out in 1952. But 75 years on, Palestinian Arabs are...
Pierced but unwavering
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 25, 2024
They ran out of room. The cemetery in Gush Etzion doesn’t have enough space for more graves for soldiers. They need to expand, to dig a new block. “Hutru l’pirsum....
100 days
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 11, 2024
It’s almost 100 days, yet Hamas, while certainly damaged, is still alive, seemingly going strong, as it continues to launch and send forth rockets over Israel.
The Druze soldier, an only child
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 04, 2024
Israel is a state made up of mostly Jews, but millions of other citizens, residents and temporary residents, too. As we all know, on Oct. 7, along with Jewish Israelis,...
The invisibly woven quilt
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 28, 2023
I wonder about the 10-year olds. That’s how old I was when I first experienced the concept of war. Of course, it was a different time. We had no clue about most of...
One messenger…another messenger…
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 21, 2023
The double tragedy involving a soldier making a split second decision in the heat and fog of battle, mistakenly killing three hostages who, after 70 days in captivity,...
On behalf of Jewish destiny
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 14, 2023
I write this column on the fifth candle of Chanukah — the candle that tips the even number of candles lit. According to chasidic teaching, this is the candle that...
On Chanukah, dispel the darkness
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 07, 2023
Those two words of greeting seem so out of place right now, like words that collide with a context, a reality — our reality that wails anything but “Happy...
Forced to watch
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 30, 2023
Avigail three years old when kidnapped, four by the time she returned home to Israel, came back without her pink floral pacifier.
A caged-animal life sentence
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 23, 2023
I feel like I literally have a pit in my stomach. A hole in my heart. The psychic agony of this hostage crisis truly is psychological warfare.