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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- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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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