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Tehilla Goldberg
Tehilla R. Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park

Bad news at Brandeis

I AM really worried about the recent controversy at Brandeis University. Ambassador of Israel Michael Oren was invited to be the keynote speaker at the commencement,...

That radio recording from 1967

BY now, it has become a ritual. Every year, on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), I download and listen to the radio broadcast of the recapture of the Old City of...

The Mask Project

OVER the years I think I passed it now and then. But I never actually stopped and looked. I was vaguely aware of some art show taking place in Cherry […]

Special occasion

EVERY season has its inviting magic. Each year, as a season rolls around again, I embrace it for its qualities or dimensions I love. Many people detest winter, but no,...

Creamsicle of my dreamsicle

ONE mellow Friday evening a little while back, right after candle lighting, I was taking a walk. It was still a wintry and snowy time, but on that particular evening...

Dentists

I JUST made an amazing discovery. Want to know what it is? OK, I’ll tell you. Dentists are nice. Really, they are. They are not sadistic torture teeth doctors with...

A rabbi’s words

Since I have received many responses and queries about my column of two weeks ago (“Female religious leadership”), I decided to revisit it. This is something I have...

Agenda, please

Something fishy is going on. I used to think Obama was just naive and out of his depth in the Middle East. Obama definitely is out of his depth there, […]

Female religious leadership

THE Orthodox world has been taken by storm over the issue of whether women should be conferred with a title indicating an official rabbinic leadership role. It started...

??? . . . ???

WHICH punctuation mark personality are you? Weird question, I know. But I have been noticing these punctuation marks more and more lately. They really are what animate...