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    Masters of the Universe
    • 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...
    The Brutal Regime Across the Red Sea
    • 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...
    Brick Factories, Modern Slavery, and Immigration from Rural Villages
    • Feb 24, 2019
    • 12 min

    Brick Factories, Modern Slavery, and Immigration from Rural Villages

    All over Nepal and India, brick factories rise up whenever there are patches of open land near a large city such as Kathmandu. Work...
    Judaism and the Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South
    • Feb 13, 2019
    • 18 min

    Judaism and the Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South

    For many of us nourished and inspired by the integrity and spiritual depth of the Orthodox tradition at its best, how to apply Torah to...
    A Dream Defiled
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    A 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...
    Jerusalem Still Burning
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 12 min

    Jerusalem 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...
    We don’t need experts to know about climate change
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 3 min

    We 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...
    An Iraqi Letter to W. Boosh
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 10 min

    An Iraqi Letter to W. Boosh

    Despite pervasive anger at the U.S., public opinion in Iraq has crystallized around the conviction that the Americans need to stay until...
    Victims of a Broken Promise
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    Victims of a Broken Promise

    http://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,...
    The Torah of Globalization
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 13 min

    The 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...
    In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer
    • Jan 17, 2019
    • 12 min

    In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer

    In the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos Link to...
    Such Fragile Threads
    • Nov 21, 2003
    • 12 min

    Such 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...
    Laughing in the face of despair
    • Aug 30, 2002
    • 11 min

    Laughing 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...
    Where Stalin Has Admirers, and Maoists Fight On
    • Apr 7, 2002
    • 7 min

    Where Stalin Has Admirers, and Maoists Fight On

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/04/07/where-stalin-has-admirers-and-maoists-fight-on/98e7f056-c5e3-4889-b784-beb842d...
    Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic
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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...
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    Micha Zvi Odenheimer
    • 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...
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