יום רביעי, א׳ אב תשפ״וWednesday, July 15, 2026
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Ann Goldberg and her family made aliyah from the UK over 30 years ago and live in Jerusalem. She is a web content writer and writing coach and runs writing workshops and e-mail courses. For more information visit anngoldbergwriting.com.
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By Ann Goldberg
She called her husband and told him to search inside the car and if it wasn’t there to go back to where he had parked car when they came to me and search on the road. But no – despite my confidence in the segulah after much searching it still wasn’t found.
By Ann Goldberg
Always ready to be ‘dan le’kav zechus’ she pinned a note on the stroller saying I’m sure you didn’t mean to destroy my stroller – if you’d like to apologize this is my phone number… For days she waited for the phone call that never came.
By Ann Goldberg
It had just passed its test, when a friend offered us a newer car for a very reasonable price. It was a shame to just discard our old ‘friend’ but we also knew it wasn’t sellable.
By Ann Goldberg
Shlomo rushed off to pay the seller and return home happily with his prize...only to find that the stall was empty. Obviously the lulav seller had packed up and gone home as yom tov was fast approaching.
By Ann Goldberg
Shira had done this several times for her neighbors when they needed it so she didn’t feel too bad calling her friend Dina and asking her if she would mind picking up their order and bringing it home.
By Ann Goldberg
Four times every Shabbos, while they were growing up, each child (and now grandchildren as well) are referred to by their full name. This turned out to be an especially good idea for several of our grandchildren who were known only by their second name.
By Ann Goldberg
I finally got it ( I think). It wasn’t enough to know that Hashem runs the world. I have to let go and leave it up to Him.
By Ann Goldberg
But they didn’t return it. I didn’t even know who the parents of the baby were and in any case I wouldn’t have felt comfortable bothering a new mother.
By Ann Goldberg
They realized he must have got on a bus, but they had no idea which bus. They had no way of knowing whether it had been a bus to Ramot where we live.
By Ann Goldberg
At 8:30pm that evening Shmuel and his wife came to see their apartment. They were thrilled. It was more than perfect.
By Ann Goldberg
He reread it time and time again, but finally decided he’d just have to accept that he didn’t understand it and move on.
By Ann Goldberg
Even if the cash was lost, it would still save endless hours of paperwork, phone calls, and visits to government offices to have all her documents returned.
By Ann Goldberg
This center wasn’t set up just to pat Israel on the back and show off its incredible entrepreneurship, it is meant to encourage future innovation among young Israelis.
By Ann Goldberg
Rav Lieberman called the simcha hall to cancel their booking, but it wasn’t so simple to find another date at a suitable venue.
By Ann Goldberg
Most of the Jews could have been saved if the government had really wanted to protect them.
By Ann Goldberg
When your yardstick for measuring pain and discomfort is the Holocaust, it’s difficult to get too upset about life’s minor problems – and that’s what they are.
By Ann Goldberg
It is both disconcerting and reassuring to sit in a bulletproof bus. The double glass, which is impossible to really clean, doesn’t lend itself to photography, so I thought I’d relax on the journey.
By Ann Goldberg
But, that morning my cold had developed into something far worse and I just knew I wasn’t going to get to the bris.
By Ann Goldberg
I happily assured her that I did in fact have no doubt that the change of name had a lot to do with their new status.
By Ann Goldberg
When Rabbanit Yemima came to address the challah bakers, she was joined at the podium by the kallah who received a bracha not just from her, but from the 900 participants as well.
By Ann Goldberg
After several sleepless days, the team had been able to speak with the Guamanian and United States funeral homes, the airline, and the widow.
By Ann Goldberg
The lectures are all of the highest caliber, with each lecturer a successful expert in his or her field. They give practical hands-on advice and tips to help others replicate their success.
By Ann Goldberg
Apart from that, the Oneg was a great success with inspiring divrei Torah and singing until late.
By Ann Goldberg
I was dumbstruck. I couldn’t help but laugh. Here we thought the idea was my husband’s but obviously the idea came from somewhere else.
By Ann Goldberg
He hadn’t even bothered to think of a plausible excuse as to why they had suddenly found a spare Seder dish and he hoped they wouldn’t ask him any questions.
By Ann Goldberg
Daily nearly a million kid in Israel go to bed hungry & leave for school in the morning the same way
By Ann Goldberg
I opened my e-mail and for the first time there was an e-mail from her waiting for me.
By Ann Goldberg
Many argue, too many gun-toting people is dangerous; those who say it probably don’t live in Israel
By Ann Goldberg
They had realized they would be far from civilization and kosher food and had packed plenty of fresh and canned food as well as making sure there was a microwave in their room which they knew how to kasher.
By Ann Goldberg
He was deeply saddened by the thought of her going to her final resting place alone and that it appeared as if she knew no one and had no family who cared about her.
By Ann Goldberg
There will always be items that don’t freeze well – salads and some rice- or potato-based dishes – so you need to leave time to prepare or cook them closer to Yom Tov and ensure there is enough room in the refrigerator to store them.
By Ann Goldberg
It’s written, it says, with all the segulos for shalom bayis and you gave it as a gift to a chassan and kallah.
By Ann Goldberg
One thing Meir couldn’t abide was machloket. He would fight wholeheartedly on behalf of his pupils in a situation involving a dispute – but not so if it was political, educational, or religious in nature.
By Ann Goldberg
If your home fits the chaotic description but you’d love to change it to the calm one maybe you should think about joining the ever growing Chatzos Movement – a group of ladies whose goal is to have all the main preparations for Shabbos over by chatzos, the middle of the day on Friday.
By Ann Goldberg
Meital and Aharon, married for several years, were thrilled to discover that Meital was pregnant. But within a few hours of their son’s birth, it was painfully apparent that things were far from all right medically.
By Ann Goldberg
I knew it wasn’t the right attitude to have but Tisha B’Av 30 years ago was one of the happiest days of my life.
By Ann Goldberg
The GPS had not been invented when Shelly set off on a Friday afternoon many years ago to join the Bnei Akiva camp in the English countryside. The organizers always managed to find a farmer who welcomed young campers under adult supervision; thus they set up their tents and during the week took the opportunity to learn the halachot of building an eruv. There would be no problems on Shabbat and they would be able to carry within the campsite.
By Ann Goldberg
A pale young man shuffled into the small Jerusalem yeshiva during kriyat haTorah one Shabbat morning.
By Ann Goldberg
“If you have children, you are a millionaire. And if all of your children have children, you are a billionaire.”
By Ann Goldberg
As night fell and Shabbat drew to a close, a minyan gathered in my sister’s home in Manchester, England.
By Ann Goldberg
Yael was tired of sticking the highchair together with glue or Sellotape. It had lasted through five children, a miracle in itself, but now it seemed to have given up all hope – and decided to self-destruct.
By Ann Goldberg
“Mum, you’ll never guess what happened.” My daughter Tammy’s tone of voice at the other end of the phone indicated that it wasn’t something pleasant. “Someone took my baby stroller from the bus. When I went to pick it up and get off the bus, it wasn’t there any more. I couldn’t believe it. Who would do such a thing?”
July 10, 2026 
