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Power to the People
Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their...
May 6, 20197 min read


Return 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 27, 20193 min read


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...
Mar 25, 201910 min read


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...
Mar 17, 201916 min read


Inside Out
In the past, those figures who most represented the Jewish people’s universalistic thrust, such as the Pauline Jesus and Marx, soundly...
Mar 7, 201911 min read


Shlomo's Torah
Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a...
Feb 28, 201915 min read


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 17, 201911 min read


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 14, 201913 min read


Judaism and the Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South
For many of us nourished and inspired by the integrity and spiritual depth of the Orthodox tradition at its best, how to apply Torah to...
Feb 14, 201918 min read


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, 20196 min read


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...
Feb 6, 201913 min read


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...
Apr 18, 200610 min read


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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May 10, 20207 min read
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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...
Micha Zvi Odenheimer
Dec 19, 20195 min read
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