Columns
Honored
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 08, 2018
Whenever election season rolls around, and especially election day itself, I know this sounds so corny — but I genuinely do get that feel-good democracy vibe. Not to...
A publisher’s responsibility
Shana GoldbergNov 01, 2018
Social media must start taking responsibility. Mark Zuckerberg boasts about being the publisher of the world’s largest media organization. If that is the case, then he...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #26
Hillel GoldbergNov 01, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #26, “Happiness with one’s lot” Look at a...
The futile search for meaning in anti-Semitism
Jonathan TobinNov 01, 2018
When something terrible happens, we demand explanations. Awful and irrational events spawn conspiracy theories because it’s part of the human condition to need to make...
Look for the helpers
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 01, 2018
Bloodshed at a synagogue called Tree of Life. The painful irony. This coming Shabbat, just before the Torah is returned to the ark, when almost every Jewish congregation...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #25
Hillel GoldbergOct 25, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #25, “Knowing one’s place” Twenty-six ways...
The ‘crystallization’ of leadership
Amy LedermanOct 25, 2018
What do Moses and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Daniel Shechtman have in common? No, this isn’t a joke, although it’s a bit of brain teaser which a dear friend...
‘Man bites dog’
Shana GoldbergOct 25, 2018
“Man bites dog” is a journalism aphorism which suggests that what’s quotidian is not interesting; it’s the outliers that capture our attention. New York Sun...
Is Israel obligated to fund anti-Zionist art?
Jonathan TobinOct 25, 2018
Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev may be about to get her wish. The Knesset has taken a first step toward passing the so-called “loyalty in culture” bill...
Future toxicity
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 25, 2018
I feel so worried about the situation on the Gaza border. Yet I rarely hear a peep about it in the news, even in the Israeli news cycle. Is this just the new normal...
