Columns
Is there order in the Torah?
Hillel GoldbergJun 26, 2014
ORDER in the court! Order in this sense means silence, or good behavior. Order in the Torah means sequence. Did the events recorded in the Torah actually happen in the...
The three kidnapped teens
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 19, 2014
What really is there to say at such a painful time? My heart is broken along with all of yours. I feel consumed with worry. I am holding my breath […]
What death can teach
Amy LedermanJun 19, 2014
By her own account, my mother is not a religious woman. She does not read the Bible, know Hebrew or put much stock in Jewish observance. She has been known […]
Is prayer an attempt to manipulate G-d?
Hillel GoldbergJun 19, 2014
AS we go to press, people around the world are praying for the safety and release of the three boys apparently kidnapped in Israel on June 12. What do we […]
The mission of the 12 spies
Hillel GoldbergJun 12, 2014
JUST as the opening chapters of Genesis are not meant to be a science book (though Genesis does contain scientific data), the middle chapters of Numbers are not meant to...
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 12, 2014
THE news that Cardinal John OConnor of New York was born of a Jewish mother surfaced a while ago. This week there was an extensive article about it in The […]
Countering racial slurs with clarity
Amy LedermanJun 06, 2014
I was ecstatic when our dear friends Barry and Bonnie called to tell us they were coming for a visit. Like most people, my husband and I rarely make time to […]
Ruth’s leap, Jethro’s ambivalence
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 06, 2014
In the post-Shavuot spirit, in contrast to Ruth who was so singleminded in her famous testimony of devotion, Moses’ father-in-law Jethro stands as a contrasting...
The personality of Miriam
Hillel GoldbergJun 06, 2014
JUST when you thought that a burst of creativity in Biblical exegesis became the final word in the field, a subterranean paradigm shift unfolds. With its development...
Big money behind a big merger
David SirotaJun 05, 2014
There are plenty of reasons to worry about the proposal to combine Comcast, America’s largest cable and broadband company, with Time Warner Cable, the second-largest...
