View from Central Park
Olympian feats
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 02, 2012
MY father passed on his love for the film Chariots of Fire to me. It is one of those films you would drop just about anything to watch. The score […]
‘For these I weep’
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 19, 2012
EACH summer, as the Hebrew month of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar rolls around, there is a palpable sense of heaviness. There is a strange feeling in the air ...
Thank you President Shimon Peres
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 12, 2012
President of Israel Shimon Peres has declined to attend the opening ceremony at the upcoming Olympics in London. The ceremony is on Shabbat and Peres cannot stay in The...
All that butter!
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 05, 2012
Every once in a while on long winter nights, I re-watch some old, favorite, black and white movies. One of them is a charming film, The Shop Around The Corner....
Colorado is burning
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 28, 2012
If I do say so myself, I am a proud Colorado show off. One of the things I gloat about is our beautiful four seasons how the winters are, […]
The Talmud in Arabic
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 21, 2012
RECENTLY, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Jordan completed a six-year project of translating the Babylonian Talmud into Arabic. On a gut level, even if somehow...
Shifting spiritual journey
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 14, 2012
MATISYAHU, the reggae rapper, posted a picture of himself without his yarmulke. As a result, many of his Jewish religious fans are mourning. This change from the...
The Jewish Atomic Clock
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 07, 2012
Like Yehuda Avners The Prime Ministers, a non-fiction narrative of modern day Israel that reads with the rhythm and pace of historical fiction, the recently published...
Poland doth protest too much
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 31, 2012
Poland is up in arms over an inaccurate statement President Obama made at a ceremony honoring a Polish hero of the Holocaust, Jan Karski, with the highest American...
Full circle
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 24, 2012
RUTH, the namesake of the the Scroll of Ruth, has always been the gentle and beautiful heroine whom we all love so much. Her compassion and lovingkindness, her maternal...
