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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 17, 2019
    • 11 min

    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, 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 14, 2019
    • 13 min

    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, 2019
    • 18 min

    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, 2019
    • 17 min

    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, 2019
    • 7 min

    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, 2019
    • 12 min

    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, 2019
    • 6 min

    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, 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
    • 10 min

    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, 2019
    • 7 min

    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, 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...

    • Jan 17, 2019
    • 12 min

    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, 2019
    • 7 min

    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, 2009
    • 5 min

    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, 2006
    • 10 min

    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, 2006
    • 15 min

    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, 2005
    • 12 min

    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, 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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