View from Central Park
Ruth-less society
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 29, 2014
WHEN we read the Book of Ruth next week on the holiday of Shavuot, we are reminded that all Jews are in essence converts. Some of us go back further […]
Numbers
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 22, 2014
Numbers have been on my mind lately. This coming week’s Torah portion inaugurates the reading of the next book of the Torah, Bamidbar, literally, “in the desert.”...
Holyland
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 15, 2014
The following joke is sadly funny: “Today is 2,190 days, which is 314 weeks, which is 6 years of Olmert” — a parody on the counting of the Omer between […]
‘Hatikva’ — hope
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 08, 2014
This past week, as celebrations of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s 66th Independence Day, swelled, a feeling of Jewish pride and thankfulness could be felt. Between the...
We remember them all
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 01, 2014
In tribute to this Sunday’s Yom Hazikaron — Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers — a lot of articles on the topic are circulating. One, by Israel National...
I was floored
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 24, 2014
WALKING through Crestmoor Park the other Shabbat, a couple, the guys head covered with a yarmulke and tzitzit (four-cornered tassles) protruding from his shirt, the...
The target was The Jew
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 18, 2014
It’s never a good time to hear about a painful senseless act of hate and violence against our people. But there is something additionally poignant about it that...
Happy Birthday, Aviv(a)
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 10, 2014
PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION C PAGE 24 Every year, my niece Aviva has the longest birthday party in the world. She was born seder night. And boy is it fun […]
Foods from generation to generation
Tehilla R. GoldbergApr 03, 2014
I confess: Come the holidays, and I am definitely a sentimental cook and eater. Proust’s famous tea-soaked madeleine that arrested time, transporting him to his...
One day at a time
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 27, 2014
I RECEIVED a very touching, very moving childrens book in the mail last week. Painfully, it is a book I wish the need for did not exist. It is called, […]