We experience different levels of surprise and shock. Regardless of how intellectually internalized something is, once it takes place, it is a different story.
The radical Islamist ideology that …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/4/16
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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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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 was in a taxicab in Israel around the time of the second intifada and the driver was talking about …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/16/16
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These are the words of Isaiah 52: “Uri, uri … Yerushalayim Ir Ha-kodesh, Awake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in splendor. Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/8/16
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It’s amazing these days how controversial Israel has become. It’s hard for me to watch. Like a dear friend who is being thrown under the bus, I admit I take it personally.
I lived in …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/1/16
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I want to tell you something about my grandmother, Miriam Harris Goldberg, editor and publisher of the Denver-based Intermountain Jewish News weekly. She turned 100 years old on Wednesday! One …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/25/16
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I’ve always been confused about what to call it: England, UK, Britain, or Britannia? They are in my mind interchangeable. And just like that, the news from there became equally confusing. …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/18/16
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Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, Israel’s Independence Day, has always been a complex day for me. As a child growing up in Jerusalem, would I be taken to join the live musical festivities or, because …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/10/16
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As I click on a video from StandWithUs of a pro-Israel rally in London, I’m inspired. Hundreds of people line the road, flanked by tall blue and white Israeli flags. No speeches. No shouts. …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/4/16
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