Mar 26, 201917 minMasters of the Universe Israel's economic planners have fallen under the sway of the International Monetary Fund, and are hypnotized by the Credit Rating...
Feb 25, 201914 minThe 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...
Feb 24, 201912 minBrick Factories, Modern Slavery, and Immigration from Rural VillagesAll over Nepal and India, brick factories rise up whenever there are patches of open land near a large city such as Kathmandu. Work...
Feb 13, 201918 minJudaism and the Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global SouthFor many of us nourished and inspired by the integrity and spiritual depth of the Orthodox tradition at its best, how to apply Torah to...
Feb 6, 20197 minA Dream Defiled The Betrayal of Ethiopia's Democracy By Micha Odenheimer The Washington Post Sunday, December 18, 2005 The Addis Ababa airport I used to...
Feb 6, 201912 minJerusalem Still Burning The sheer possibilities of the Global South attracted me - as Israel's had eighteen years ago. In Kathmandu last summer, those two loves...
Feb 6, 20193 minWe don’t need experts to know about climate change We can learn all we need to know about global warming from subsistence farmers struggling for survival I learned the most about climate...
Feb 6, 201910 minAn Iraqi Letter to W. BooshDespite pervasive anger at the U.S., public opinion in Iraq has crystallized around the conviction that the Americans need to stay until...
Feb 6, 20197 minVictims of a Broken Promisehttp://www1.jafi.org.il/papers/1999/july/jrjuly5.htm (July 5,1999) A year after Israel pledged to rescue them, Quara’s Jews wait. Hungry,...
Feb 6, 201913 minThe Torah of Globalization What guidance can the Jewish tradition, from the Bible onwards, give to us in the age of Neo-Liberal economic globalization? Although...
Jan 17, 201912 minIn Ethiopia, when the shooting got closerIn the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos Link to...
Nov 21, 200312 minSuch Fragile Threads https://www.haaretz.com/1.4766470 The longing of the Iraqi people for a society based on basic human rights sometimes appears strong...
Aug 30, 200211 minLaughing in the face of despair http://burmatoday.net/newsarchives/news_020830_laughting.htm Burma is an entrancingly beautiful country of Buddhist monks and hill-tribe...
Apr 7, 20027 minWhere Stalin Has Admirers, and Maoists Fight Onhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/04/07/where-stalin-has-admirers-and-maoists-fight-on/98e7f056-c5e3-4889-b784-beb842d...
michaodenheimerMay 10, 20207 minFreedom, 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...
Micha Zvi OdenheimerDec 19, 20195 minLanguage, 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...