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    • May 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    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...
    Return to the Garden of Eden
    • 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...
    Why Has Social Justice been Written out of the Torah?
    • 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...
    Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Profundity and Courage
    • 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...
    Inside Out
    • 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...
    Shlomo's Torah
    • 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...
    Brilliance of the Baal Shem Tov
    • 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...
    Yamima Avital: First Jewish Woman Mystic with her Own Written Torah
    • 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...
    Judaism and the Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South
    • 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...
    The Zionist Dream Awaits a Peoplehood Vision
    • 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...
    The Torah of Globalization
    • 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...
    The Messiah Code
    • 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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