The tears of Rebbe
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 29, 2013
A Talmudic persona emblematic of teshuva, of repentance, is none other than Elazar ben Dordayah (tractate Avoda Zara 17b). He was steeped in immorality. He fell to the...
Summer, 2013
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 22, 2013
HAVE you noticed? All that melodious bird song is beginning to wane. Cheerful bird chirping can still be heard, but it is getting less and less. All those birds...
My own film festival
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 15, 2013
Sometimes I think that I should officially organize my own film festival. My friends joke that I already do. I often recommend movies to them from my cache of “must...
Rocks and rockets
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 08, 2013
After hearing many upsetting reactions to what was perceived as an anti-Israel article by Jodi Rudoren in The New York Times, I read the article myself. It is titled...
Goodwill gesture, Animal Farm style
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 01, 2013
What painful news. Bibi, along with the vote and agreement of many other government ministers, has agreed to release 104 Palestinian terrorist prisoners in exchange for...
Is it cruelty or kindness?
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 25, 2013
In Poland, the land of Auschwitz and Treblinka, of Majdanek and the Warsaw ghetto, in the land where millions of Jews and Jewish children were slaughtered just 65 years...
Fatal distraction
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 18, 2013
In the last 10 days or so, two stories have been reported on one of the worst tragedies imaginable, recalling The Scream, the painting from Edward Munch. A parent...
Mourning together
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 11, 2013
One summer I was visiting from Israel with a friend at Yale University. We attended the Orthodox minyan’s Tisha b’Av reading of Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, and...
Five daughters of redemption
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 04, 2013
One of the great motifs in the book of Numbers is the land of Israel: the implicit rejection of the land by the Israelites revisionist perspective of how great things...
Ice cream
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 27, 2013
What is it about summer and ice cream? Do you know anyone, grown-up or child alike, who doesnt have an affection for this frozen confection? If you do, I would...
