Columns
Listening to their stories
Amy LedermanJun 13, 2008
My dad has always been a larger-than-life type of guy and for most of my childhood, appeared to be the dominant force in our family even though Mom often manipulated...
New Yorkers: cramped spaces, open hearts
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 13, 2008
Are New Yorkers nice? Of course, you cant generalize about eight million people. But New York has always had that tough reputation for people being short tempered,...
Shavuout: The oneness of G-d
Hillel GoldbergJun 05, 2008
G-d is one. In trying to understand the oneness of G-d, the what is often rendered subservient to the how, and because the how is at best only imprecisely...
Best Jewish genealogy websites
Mark FearerJun 05, 2008
Finding your family requires two major tools: methodology and resources. We have previously focused on genealogical methods, so this month well look at resources....
Shavuot, Ruth…beginning anew
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 05, 2008
This week we will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, marking G-ds revelation at Mount Sinai and the gift of the Torah. On Shavuot we open the scroll of Ruth. Every...
G-d, the Holocaust and a pastor
Dennis PragerMay 29, 2008
Comments about G-d and the Holocaust made in a sermon 10 years ago by a leading evangelical pastor, John Hagee, have received a great deal of attention. They have led...
Segues of our lives: F and B
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 29, 2008
Lifes points of departure are always a challenge. How do you leave a life or a world behind and embrace a new, different one? Navigating these transitions is never...
‘What do you do for a living?’ — ‘I design bullets’
Hillel GoldbergMay 29, 2008
My favorite topic: how to kill people, that is, how best to kill people. That wasnt the actual headline, but it could have been. This bullet vs. that bullet....
The ghost’s ghost
Hillel GoldbergMay 23, 2008
Ive never had a ghost writer. But what about a ghosts ghost? That would be Andrea Jacobs, IJN senior writer. I drift by Andreas window, tossing out the standard,...
Good and bad
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 23, 2008
Something difficult happened the other day when someone’s knee jerk reaction was blithely declaring that everything G-d does is for the best. They proceeded with a...
