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    • May 10, 2020
    • 7 min

    Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic

    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” So begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Social Contract.” I’ve been thinking abou...

    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    Language, Prayer, Compassion, Interpretation

    Happy Chanuka! What follows are some words of Torah that I offered on Saturday night in honor of the 25th anniversary of the passing of m...

    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    Netanyahu Blames everyone but himself

    One well-known example of “chutzpah” is someone who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy from the court because he is an orphan. Wa...

    • Sep 1, 2019
    • 14 min

    The Great Fake

    Imagine a shiny Cadillac pulls up to your house and a guy in a fancy suit, smelling of cologne, knocks on your door. “Just sign this,” he...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Lurking within is the Holy Urge

    Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires emer...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    a SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUN

    Parshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as realit...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    War Damage

    Parshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the Lor...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    gATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTED

    Parshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...

    • May 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    Power to the People

    Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their iden...

    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    Jewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelech

    Losing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over ...

    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    parshat hashavua

    this is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.

    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 3 min

    Return to the Garden of Eden

    Paashat Shlach Lecha. Originally published in "The People and the Book", Jerusalem Report, June 15 1995. The unfinished story of the Gard...

    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 17 min

    Masters of the Universe

    Israel's economic planners have fallen under the sway of the International Monetary Fund, and are hypnotized by the Credit Rating Agencie...

    • Mar 25, 2019
    • 10 min

    Why Has Social Justice been Written out of the Torah?

    We are faced with a religious leadership that is largely indifferent to the economic gaps that have opened up in Israel, or the neo-liber...

    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 16 min

    Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Profundity and Courage

    Yitz Greenberg, 73 years old, is arguably the most important rabbi that American Jewry has yet produced, and the most profoundly American...

    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 11 min

    Inside Out

    In the past, those figures who most represented the Jewish people’s universalistic thrust, such as the Pauline Jesus and Marx, soundly re...

    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 15 min

    Shlomo's Torah

    Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a differe...

    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 13 min

    Messiah Now

    Chabad Messianists, the Rebbe, and the Future of Judaism On April 9 this year, some four thousand men and women crammed into Yad Eliyahu,...

    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 10 min

    יד לא נעלמה

    ברדיפה אחרי כסף וכוח הולכים ומשתלטים כמה תאגידי ענק על משאבי הטבע והכלכלה של העולם כולו. התהליך, אשר גורם להרס חייהם ותרבותם של מאות מילי...

    • Feb 25, 2019
    • 14 min

    The Brutal Regime Across the Red Sea

    Eritreans in Israel claim they are refugees from a murderous regime. In their thousands, they have braved Sudan and the Sinai desert in ...

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