Bidud. Bedidut. Hitbodedut. These Hebrew words overlap as they are all rooted in the Hebrew letters bet, daled, daled …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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3/18/20
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A couple of friends joined me on Oscar night for ice cream and snacks in front of the TV. As brief Oscar acceptance speeches wore on, along came the “craziest” acceptance speech of …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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2/19/20
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More than an effort to reach an immediate agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, President Trump’s peace plan, “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision To Improve The Lives of The …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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2/7/20
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It’s a study in contradictions: The extremist progressive youth of the American university and the extremist progressive youth of the Iranian university.
Living in that university milieu …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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1/22/20
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When I was growing up in Jerusalem, Israel was practically a third world country. Since then, it’s leap-frogged into today’s “Startup Nation.”
One of the ways in which …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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1/15/20
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The recent and rapid escalation of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area is horrifying, almost reaching epidemic levels. Since most of the perpetrators do not fit the profile of white …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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1/9/20
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When I think of the different Chanukah menorahs I’ve lit over the years, it feels like they represent the places I was at in my life, be they geographic or emotional. Some people light just …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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12/24/19
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By now it’s an iconic picture. The one from Kiel, Germany, 1931. Yad Vashem has circulated it for a while; nonetheless, every Chanukah it still touches me.
It was an erev Shabbat, the …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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12/17/19
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Danny Danon, Israeli’s ambassador to the UN, wants to introduce a General Assembly resolution on behalf of 850,000 forgotten Jews who were forced to flee such Muslim-ruled countries as …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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12/10/19
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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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