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...
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- Mar 27, 2019
- 3 min
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 25, 2019
- 10 min
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 17, 2019
- 16 min
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 7, 2019
- 11 min
Inside Out
In the past, those figures who most represented the Jewish people’s universalistic thrust, such as the Pauline Jesus and Marx, soundly...
- Feb 28, 2019
- 15 min
Shlomo's Torah
Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a...
- 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
- 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 14, 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 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
- 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...
- 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...
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