May 11, 20193 minLurking within is the Holy Urge Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires emer...
May 11, 20193 mina SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUNParshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as realit...
May 11, 20193 minWar DamageParshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the Lor...
May 11, 20194 mingATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTEDParshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...
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 iden...
Apr 29, 20194 minJewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelechLosing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over ...
Apr 4, 20191 minparshat hashavuathis is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.
michaodenheimer 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...
- 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...
