Phew! I’m glad to know the beloved library has not been sworn off. Books and a love of reading have been with me since I was little. Growing up in a tiny matchbox of a Jerusalem apartment, my …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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11/1/17
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After the jokes of Bereshit sermons fade away — “And G-d uttered, zul zayn azoy, and it was so,” or “And G-d created the heavens and the earth and all the rest was made in …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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10/25/17
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You know the scene from the movie “Back To The Future” where the lady is holding a can with a rattling coin, calling: “Save the clock tower! Save the clock tower!” Well, I …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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10/18/17
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Part of the charm of Sukkot is the shuk arba minim, the chaos of the lulav and etrog market.
The narrow window of time for this ad hoc religio-enterprenuerial market is just as soon as Yom Kippur …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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10/3/17
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These days of awe are such an interweaving of botha pragmatic and spiritual preparation. As I weave and braid another challah, as I drench a rosette challah wreath with another layer of honey glaze, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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9/30/17
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This probably won’t be true for the next generation, and perhaps it’s only the case for New Yorkers or many of us who called New York home for a good chunk of our lives, but remembering …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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9/19/17
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Even before the first blast of the shofar ushered in the month of Elul, in Israel it was the midnight sounds of the melodious selichot, the penitential prayers at the Western Wall, that welcomed the …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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9/7/17
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For a few years now, I’ve been bothered by the “Alt-left” and the hypocritical silence of the liberal community toward it. I fail to understand how people rationalize its extremism, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/23/17
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Elor Azaria has gone to jail. He is the Israeli soldier who faced a terror attack, then shot dead a Palestinian who was already neutralized.
Whether you think that he is a good soldier who …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/17/17
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From one Shabbat to the next, we traveled from moments of al eleh ani bochiya (for these I weep) to nachamu nachamu ami (take comfort, take comfort, my people). Between these two points in Jewish …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/9/17
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