Better than chicken soup
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 19, 2009
WITH the comforting warm hues of burnt oranges, reds and golds glowing all around and tucking us deeper and deeper into the indoors, there is a comforting sort of...
Political correctness taken too far
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 12, 2009
THIS week I experienced an eerie sense of deja vu. As the reports began coming in from Fort Hood Texas, something felt hauntingly familiar. It was those pictures. It was...
The baseball-hostility phase
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 05, 2009
I KNOW. I know. They are despised by all of us official non-New Yorkers. But I gotta tell ya, if you are in New York now, loyal fan or not, […]
Brushstrokes of war
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 22, 2009
I WILL leave the more substantive and critical remarks regarding the Goldstone Report to more savvy political commentators. That really is not my department. I know...
Coming up short
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 15, 2009
ONCE the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to terrorist Yasir Arafat, I knew it was, on some level, utterly meaningless. At the same time, one might argue that Obamas...
A different Sukkot
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 08, 2009
I WONT lie to you and tell you that I dont miss the holiday of Sukkot in Israel. I wont pretend that I dont long for that Jerusalem landscape of […]
The secret ingredient
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 01, 2009
Break out that bounty! It’s Sukkot! We are here to celebrate the autumn harvest of fruits. The colorful crops we have amassed. Be they in produce, in life, in...
Bridges
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 24, 2009
Gesher tzar meod The world is a very narrow bridge (Rebbe Nachman of Breslov) FOR 10 days now, our lives are just a little bit different from any other...
Symbolic tastings
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 17, 2009
I JUST love the Rosh Hashanah table. To me, it is brimming with abundance, blessing and bounty. Every Jewish holiday is rich with food symbolism, and every holiday has...
The symbolic womb
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 10, 2009
AFTER each sequence and series of the call and cry of the shofar, all of us together as a congregation, like a refrain, say, Hayom Harat Olam, translated literally,...
