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Tehilla Goldberg
Tehilla R. Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park

The bird, not the bell

To us Americans, the symbol of freedom is that of the Liberty Bell. In Philadelphia, inscribed on the bell are the words from this week’s Torah portion, Behar, in...

What would Rashbi say?

SOMETIMES timing is a funny thing. Just a day before Lag b’Omer, when so many cities in Israel are  blanketed in the smokiness of bonfires commemorating the day that...

Thank you, Frieda

ECCLESIASTES teaches, “generations come and generations go.”  Last  week, as Frieda Shames Makovsky Englard passed away, the Denver Jewish community was imbued with...

Yom Ha’atzmaut

IN the US, many Americans raise the American flag on the front porch of their home for July 4. But many do not. For those who don’t, it is not […]

Shalom Eisner’s heroic background

Just as I was leaving Israel the story broke of Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner striking?a Danish anti-Israel protester?and anarchist, Andreas Ayas. I knew the name Shalom Eisner...

Pesach in Israel is a whole-country affair

It was so great to be back there. I had not been in Israel for a while, so arriving just in time to join the entire country switching over from […]

Leaving hastily

As I was paying attention to the Torah reading in shul last Shabbos something about the Torah portion of Tzav rang out as familiar. The korban shelamim — the peace...

Pesach food . . . old world

THE Pesach seder. A night when the symbol and power of asking questions is celebrated. When we reflect upon the idea of human oppression. And ultimately when we as a...

We knew

I think all of our hearts were ripped to shreds this week. All of our tears flowed together with the Jews of France and Israel. When the terrible news spread […]

Musical chairs

It was deja vu all over again this week, wasn’t it? By now, we all can pretty much predict how these insane outbursts of Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza, which...