Browsing Facebook this week I came across a GoFundMe post by someone I know, an observant Jewish man. It was for someone he personally knows, a single mother of six. She is struggling and lives …
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by Tehilla Goldberg
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11/27/19
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I’m not sure what side I come down on about Elor Azraya, the IDF soldier who shot and killed a Palestinian stabber last week as he was laying on the ground.
My initital reactions were anger, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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4/6/16
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This column started as View From Jerusalem. After I moved to the Upper West Side, it was switched to View From Central Park, a geographic marker of the move, from Jerusalem to New York. When I …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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11/30/16
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Last Wednesday, when a manslaughter conviction was handed down against IDF soldier Elor Azaria, was a complex, difficult and sad day for Israel. Some in Israel called it a black day; others touted it …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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1/11/17
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After Newtown, the collective grief was overwhelming, I couldn’t bear to write about it. What, really, could one say about a massacre of little school children? At the time, I thought, after …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/22/16
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I’d rather be writing about the breathtaking Olympics or about baking scrumptious hamantaschan for Purim. Honestly, what can I add to the conversation about the gruesome massacre in Florida? …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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2/28/18
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Drinking wine — one of life’s great simple pleasures. With each sip from a stemmed glass, the libation holds a layered history and mystery that led to the taste of this moment. …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/21/19
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They stood side by side, the liberated and the liberators. The formal, brass-decked young uniformed military men and women from Colorado’s National Guard — from the same 157th infantry …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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4/30/15
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Political discussion can be frustrating. Especially recently, it seems the conversation has become even more binary than usual.
If the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage was not …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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7/31/15
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It always was and always will be unforgivable: The heartrending story of Yaldei Teiman, the Children of Yemen.
At some point when I was young, I became aware of this dark chapter in Israel’s …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/29/16
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