Columns
Power Tools — helping kids cope with terror
Sharon Duke EstroffJul 26, 2012
It was a tough week on the news ticker for parents. First came the heinous attack on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria, followed only days later by the incomprehensible...
Humanitarian crisis in Syria
Hillel GoldbergJul 19, 2012
I USED to laugh, too, when people would suggest that the US might someday put the UN above its own national interests. I used to laugh, too, during the 2008 […]
‘For these I weep’
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 19, 2012
EACH summer, as the Hebrew month of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar rolls around, there is a palpable sense of heaviness. There is a strange feeling in the air ...
Why some people are cynical about the Talmud
Hillel GoldbergJul 12, 2012
In passing conversation I hear misconceptions about the Talmud. More broadly, I hear things about Jewish law that do not fit the reality. This is natural, for if people...
Thank you President Shimon Peres
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 12, 2012
President of Israel Shimon Peres has declined to attend the opening ceremony at the upcoming Olympics in London. The ceremony is on Shabbat and Peres cannot stay in The...
The ‘G-d Particle’ and G-d
Dennis PragerJul 12, 2012
THEY found the G-d-Particle. That was the headline in many of Americas news media. It turns out that the name actually derives from substituting G-d-particle...
Deep soul: Knuckleball in search of a period
Hillel GoldbergJul 05, 2012
I once told a friend. Not only did I like your book. I read it. Im making an exception. I just heard of Wherever I Wind Up a few days […]
All that butter!
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 05, 2012
Every once in a while on long winter nights, I re-watch some old, favorite, black and white movies. One of them is a charming film, The Shop Around The Corner....
Time and permission to talk
Amy LedermanJul 05, 2012
I ARRIVED in Tucson on July 4, 1976, erev Bi-Centennial for those of us who are prone to turning a national holiday into a Jewish one. It was hotter than […]
Sparks of wisdom
Hillel GoldbergJun 28, 2012
Appearance: One Saturday night, as Rabbi Joseph Jozel was making Havdalah, shots were being fired in his yard. But his hand did not tremble, and not a drop spilled from...
