Mar 25, 201910 minWhy 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, 201916 minRabbi Yitz Greenberg: Profundity and CourageYitz Greenberg, 73 years old, is arguably the most important rabbi that American Jewry has yet produced, and the most profoundly American...
Feb 28, 201915 minShlomo's TorahShlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a differe...
Feb 28, 201913 minMessiah 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 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 17, 201911 minBrilliance of the Baal Shem Tov Two hundred and fifty years after the Baal Shem Tov’s death, English readers finally have a scholarly compilation of some of his most imp...
Feb 14, 20198 minThe Art of Living How Ethiopian Israelis became Masters of Living on Less There is an art to living on 2500 shekels a month, and many within the Ethiopian ...
Feb 14, 201913 minYamima Avital: First Jewish Woman Mystic with her Own Written TorahPunch Yamima Avital's name into a (Hebrew) Internet search engine and you will find forums with endless exchanges of information about wh...
Feb 12, 201917 minCave of the Patriarchs The Cave Below the earth's surface, where it is cool, damp and deep, a great light—a blinding light--is waiting, wrapped in darkness. Bel...
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, 20196 minThe Zionist Dream Awaits a Peoplehood Visionhttps://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-zionist-dream-awaits-a-peoplehood-vision/ Eleven years ago, I created Tevel b’Tzedek, an Israeli orga...
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, 20196 minIts About Politics, Money, and Tycoons, Mr. Presidenthttps://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-shimon-peres/ Accepting a lavish Bank Hapoalim salary revealed a shocking disconnect fr...
Jan 17, 20197 minWise Guy, Wise ManA mystical figure with a hippie past, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi is the moving force behind the Jewish Renewal movement, which blends ...
Oct 13, 20095 minFamily Ties https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/13/family-ties/ Mishpacha, Jerusalem In this age of satellite television and the Internet, it’s rare fo...
Apr 18, 200610 minThe Messiah Code https://www.haaretz.com/1.4901705 For 200 years, a mysterious manuscript dictated by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav to his two closest discipl...
Jun 12, 200512 minHolding Fast to Their Faith https://www.haaretz.com/1.4908605 "Dreams are very important," says Chaim Avraham, a deceptively slight 33-year-old immigrant from Ethiop...
Jan 28, 200510 min'Harvard' of the Haredimhttps://www.haaretz.com/1.4716401 Why has acceptance into the overcrowded, anti-Zionist Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem become the dream of ev...
Dec 17, 200422 minLatter-day luminary http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah-worldwide/haaretz#.XFLoGs8zauW Despite his powerful fusion of mysticism and social ideas, Rabbi ...
michaodenheimer 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...