May 6, 20197 minPower to the PeopleTorah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their...
Mar 27, 20193 minReturn to the Garden of Eden Paashat Shlach Lecha. Originally published in "The People and the Book", Jerusalem Report, June 15 1995. The unfinished story of the...
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...
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...
michaodenheimerMay 10, 20207 minFreedom, 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...
Micha Zvi OdenheimerDec 19, 20195 minLanguage, 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...