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    • 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...

    • 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 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 imp...

    • 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 wh...

    • 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. Bel...

    • 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 orga...

    • 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 fr...

    • 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 fo...

    • 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 discipl...

    • 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 Ethiop...

    • 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 ev...

    • 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 abou...
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    • 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...
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