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...
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Feb 17, 201911 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 14, 20198 min read
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, 201913 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 13, 201918 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 12, 201917 min read
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....
Feb 6, 20197 min read
A Dream Defiled
The Betrayal of Ethiopia's Democracy By Micha Odenheimer The Washington Post Sunday, December 18, 2005 The Addis Ababa airport I used to...
Feb 6, 201912 min read
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, 20196 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, 20193 min read
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, 201910 min read
An Iraqi Letter to W. Boosh
Despite pervasive anger at the U.S., public opinion in Iraq has crystallized around the conviction that the Americans need to stay until...
Feb 6, 20197 min read
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, 20196 min read
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, 201913 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...
Jan 17, 201912 min read
In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer
In the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos Link to...
Jan 17, 20197 min read
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, 20095 min read
Family Ties
https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/13/family-ties/ Mishpacha, Jerusalem In this age of satellite television and the Internet, it’s rare...
Apr 18, 200610 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...
Feb 1, 200615 min read
The End of Public Space: Israel's New Shopping Malls
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/Odenheimer-the-end-of-public-space Shopping malls, I've always found, are difficult places to...
Jun 12, 200512 min read
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...
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May 10, 20207 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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Micha Zvi Odenheimer
Dec 19, 20195 min read
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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