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'Harvard' of the Haredim
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4716401 Why has acceptance into the overcrowded, anti-Zionist Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem become the dream of...
Jan 28, 200510 min read


Latter-day luminary
http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah-worldwide/haaretz#.XFLoGs8zauW Despite his powerful fusion of mysticism and social ideas, Rabbi...
Dec 17, 200422 min read


Such Fragile Threads
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4766470 The longing of the Iraqi people for a society based on basic human rights sometimes appears strong...
Nov 21, 200312 min read


Laughing in the face of despair
http://burmatoday.net/newsarchives/news_020830_laughting.htm Burma is an entrancingly beautiful country of Buddhist monks and hill-tribe...
Aug 30, 200211 min read


Where Stalin Has Admirers, and Maoists Fight On
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/04/07/where-stalin-has-admirers-and-maoists-fight-on/98e7f056-c5e3-4889-b784-beb842d...
Apr 7, 20027 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...
michaodenheimer
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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