Columns
Coffee’s on me
Shana GoldbergMar 07, 2024
Reading continues to be my mental escape five months into the war that began Oct. 7. Amid a plethora of psychological thrillers, I’m re-reading many childhood...
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah . . . and Haman
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 07, 2024
What if this whole Hamas nightmare is calculated and premeditated by Iran, placed as a mere appetizer, a preliminary, a dress rehearsal of sorts, to the main course, the...
Hearts feel hearts — Standing Together
Chaim GoldbergFeb 29, 2024
Shai Graucher is an indefatigable chesed machine who, in the wake of Oct. 7, founded Standing Together, an organization that has provided support at a level surpassed...
Right here, right now
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 29, 2024
“Mishenichnas Adar Marbim b’Simcha, with the onset of Adar comes in, joy surges” — such is the usual motif for the Jewish month of Adar, in which the often...
Time travel
Shana GoldbergFeb 29, 2024
One probably wouldn’t expect a book called Nosh to be a compilation of “Plant-Forward Recipes,” as the subhead begins. But there’s no false advertising here. The...
Seeing the light
Karen GalatzFeb 22, 2024
The trip was one-part anniversary present, one-part dream travel destination come true, but most of all, it was a long, longed-for spiritual re-connection with my father...
When problems don’t have solutions
Hillel GoldbergFeb 22, 2024
A Palestinian state, made up of people who are either terrorists or who, in the main, support the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, is a prescription for the end of Israel.
Misplaced mercy
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 22, 2024
When the curiosity and quirk of the lunar calendar presents us with a leap year, thus giving us two months of Adar, we are also given two Purim holidays.
How many indigenous Palestinians?
Hillel GoldbergFeb 15, 2024
Were there 775,000 indigenous Palestinians expelled by Israel? This statement is inextricably tied to a host of issues that I do not address in order to focus on...
Extraordinary confluence
Shana GoldbergFeb 15, 2024
“Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, who frees the captive.” In the space of less than 24 hours, I was privileged to witness this blessing...