Columns
‘Shut down the virus’
Shana GoldbergOct 29, 2020
Last Friday, Joe Biden stated that he is “going to shut down the virus.” Good luck. If he succeeds, he’ll be in the company of only one other country: China. Has...
Whose dogma?
Hillel GoldbergOct 29, 2020
“Even paranoids have enemies,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is supposed to have quipped. Does being religious in America today automatically earn one...
Death records as genealogy tools
Mark FearerOct 29, 2020
My last column was probably the hardest one to write, talking about my nephew’s tragic death. But it morbidly inspired me to address a few death records: obituaries,...
How COVID has changed our Jewish outlook
Amy LedermanOct 29, 2020
The Jewish High Holidays and Sukkot have come and gone this year, unlike any other, and posed new challenges for all of us because of COVID. Yet, COVID also offered new...
The sky is the limit
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 29, 2020
Even though we still see summer leaves, now burnished burgundy and gold, stubbornly clinging, once the first snowfall touches down, once that long, incessantly rainy...
Excessive force
Hillel GoldbergOct 22, 2020
A man was shot dead in downtown Denver by a security officer hired by 9NEWS. As to whether the officer, who has been charged with second degree murder, acted in...
I want to imagine a world…
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 22, 2020
Every year we read the story of Noah, the flood, and the ark. But never in our generation have we read this Torah portion as we ourselves living through what can feel...
The journey into the unknown . . . you
Shmuel ReichmanOct 22, 2020
There is a story told of a man who was captured behind enemy lines during war. To his horror, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. However, the captain gave the...
A companion for Genesis
Hillel GoldbergOct 15, 2020
If the medium is the message, then next to the stark, calligraphic beauty of the Torah scroll itself is the beauty of Genesis: A Parsha Companion (Maggid, 2019),...
A descendant of slaves rises
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 15, 2020
News is released that Israeli actress Gal Gadot landed a starring role, playing Cleopatra, the famed queen of the Nile, and, predictably, the reaction is, a kerfuffle....
