Columns
Live long and prosper?
Karen GalatzJan 25, 2024
Does the thought of a super long life thrill or chill you? Once upon a time, the idea of living to be 100 was extraordinary. Now, while hardly commonplace, it’s...
Minor (lethal) Offenses
Shana GoldbergJan 25, 2024
“The teenagers had been jailed for minor offenses like throwing stones.” This sentence, penned by the AP when a hostage-prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel...
Pierced but unwavering
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 25, 2024
They ran out of room. The cemetery in Gush Etzion doesn’t have enough space for more graves for soldiers. They need to expand, to dig a new block. “Hutru l’pirsum....
The mystery of the 92nd Psalm
Hillel GoldbergJan 18, 2024
One of the enduring mysteries in the book of Psalms is Psalm 92. Its opening verse reads, “A psalm, a song, for the Sabbath day,” followed by 15 more verses. Not a...
Don’t take pro-Israel politicians for granted
Rabbi Efrem GoldbergJan 18, 2024
Among the many things that have changed as a result of Oct. 7, I would humbly recommend that the Jewish community would do well no longer to identify with a single...
Fight or flight
Shana GoldbergJan 18, 2024
In these past 100-plus days, I keep thinking about fight-or-flight, the body’s stress response to threats. Which, fleeing or fighting, carries the highest possibility...
AP responds to a critique of its report from Gaza
Hillel GoldbergJan 11, 2024
When I make an argument, I try to imagine the strongest counterargument. As I learned from my high school principal, the late Sam Waldman, never argue against an...
100 days
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 11, 2024
It’s almost 100 days, yet Hamas, while certainly damaged, is still alive, seemingly going strong, as it continues to launch and send forth rockets over Israel.
What do you say?
Herb KeinonJan 11, 2024
As parents now for over 30 years, The Wife and I generally know what to say to our four kids. It comes with the territory. Four kids and more than […]
Livnot b’Yachad
Shana GoldbergJan 11, 2024
As I sat in the closing plenary of the JNF-USA Global Conference late last year, I knew that the vision Russell Robinson was outlining about rebuilding Israel’s south...