Dear Mr. Lauder
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 16, 2018
This past Monday, The New York Times ran an opinion piece penned by the honorable Mr. Ronald Lauder, chairman of World Jewish Congress. Mr. Lauder is known for his...
Honorary grandfather of Colorado sports
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Looking back, like into the frame of a photo from long ago, I wish I had noticed what Jerry Mellman was like in the moments he was photographing sports players in...
‘Two’ heroines? No.
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 02, 2018
Ahed Tamimi, the teen Palestinian who beat up IDF soldiers (captured on camera) was released from Israeli prison after eight months of incarceration. She thrives on...
New York City fountain walk
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 26, 2018
Having had grandparents in Brooklyn, I had been coming to New York my whole life. But it was only as a newly minted New York City university student, with a first time...
Blindness . . . Dialogue in the Dark
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 19, 2018
One of the arcs of my one-week trip to Israel was the World Cup. By now we all know, France won. But on my final night in Jerusalem, as I emerged from the lobby of the...
Jerusalem of Gold
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Hello from Jerusalem! I am thrilled to write to you once again a “View From Jerusalem,” the original byline of my column (a continuation of my...
How we come back
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 05, 2018
At some point when I was in either high school, or possibly college, my mother clipped a newspaper column she gave me to read. At that point I was more Israeli than...
Give me your tired, your poor…
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 21, 2018
There was a song I used to sing a lot when I was little. Its melody was very beautiful, truly stirring, “shalach teshalach et ha-em, ha-banim tikach lach, lema’an...
Lose-lose
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 14, 2018
“Netiv Ha’avot,” the Path of The Forefathers. Until this past week, it was a neighborhood of about 15 homes and families in Gush Etzion, Israel. Two days ago the...
Kites, repurposed for destruction
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 07, 2018
Aren’t kites a childhood pastime you play and enjoy on a perfect summer day? Aren’t kites for watching patterned colorful fabrics of parallelograms or quadrilaterals...
