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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- Feb 17, 2019
- 11 min
Brilliance 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...
- Feb 14, 2019
- 8 min
The 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, 2019
- 13 min
Yamima Avital: First Jewish Woman Mystic with her Own Written Torah
Punch Yamima Avital's name into a (Hebrew) Internet search engine and you will find forums with endless exchanges of information about...
- Feb 12, 2019
- 17 min
Cave 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....
- 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...
- Feb 6, 2019
- 6 min
The Zionist Dream Awaits a Peoplehood Vision
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-zionist-dream-awaits-a-peoplehood-vision/ Eleven years ago, I created Tevel b’Tzedek, an Israeli...
- 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,...
- Feb 6, 2019
- 6 min
Its About Politics, Money, and Tycoons, Mr. President
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-shimon-peres/ Accepting a lavish Bank Hapoalim salary revealed a shocking disconnect...
- Jan 17, 2019
- 7 min
Wise Guy, Wise Man
A mystical figure with a hippie past, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi is the moving force behind the Jewish Renewal movement, which blends...
- Oct 13, 2009
- 5 min
Family Ties
https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/13/family-ties/ Mishpacha, Jerusalem In this age of satellite television and the Internet, it’s rare...
- Apr 18, 2006
- 10 min
The Messiah Code
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4901705 For 200 years, a mysterious manuscript dictated by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav to his two closest...
- Jun 12, 2005
- 12 min
Holding 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...
- Jan 28, 2005
- 10 min
'Harvard' of the Haredim
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4716401 Why has acceptance into the overcrowded, anti-Zionist Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem become the dream of...
- Dec 17, 2004
- 22 min
Latter-day luminary
http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah-worldwide/haaretz#.XFLoGs8zauW Despite his powerful fusion of mysticism and social ideas, Rabbi...
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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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