Columns
I am pessimistic about peace
Hillel GoldbergJun 10, 2010
JERUSALEM There is nothing like a trip to Israel to sober one up about the realities here. They make so much more sense than the ethereal world of diplomacy....
Eye-openers in Israel
Hillel GoldbergJun 03, 2010
JERUSALEM The Jewish state that Prime Minister Netanyahu demands that Palestinians recognize as such is certainly not all Jewish. I refer not to Israeli Arabs,...
It’s the economy, smarty
Martin WestermanJun 03, 2010
MAYBE its time to invoke a modern Jubilee on the global economy. Jubilee is the Leviticus concept that every 50 years, with a sounding of the shofar on Yom Kippur,...
The flotilla
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 03, 2010
THIS is a hard column for me to write. Israel is wounded right now. I feel bad for everything she is going through. The whole flotilla raid what a […]
Memorial Day
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 27, 2010
I AM excited . . . it is Memorial Day Weekend. My friends and I have been in touch a lot about this weekend. Should we travel to picturesque Lake […]
Volunteering: You get more than you give
Amy LedermanMay 27, 2010
THE year was 1976: America celebrated its 200th birthday, Alex Haley published Roots, the Dow Jones closed at 1004 and I arrived in Tucson with a backpack, a college...
Why buy good luggage?
Hillel GoldbergMay 20, 2010
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. Yogi Berra I WISH Yogi Berra a very long life. I feel like hes my friend, my uncle, […]
Bad news at Brandeis
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 20, 2010
I AM really worried about the recent controversy at Brandeis University. Ambassador of Israel Michael Oren was invited to be the keynote speaker at the commencement,...
Shavuot
Hillel GoldbergMay 13, 2010
SOMETHING real, but not concrete. It went like this. Jacob M. Charlop, later known as a great man, found himself somewhat ill when he was 19. Doctors advised that he...
The $20 gift
Yisroel & Shloime EngelMay 13, 2010
Dear Tzviling, Last Sunday, I treated my mother to a five-course gastronomania at the local deli. I read that you do not believe in Mothers Day. Please tell me its...
