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 iden...
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 Gard...
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 neo-liber...
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 In the past, those figures who most represented the Jewish people’s universalistic thrust, such as the Pauline Jesus and Marx, soundly re...
Shlomo's Torah Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a differe...
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 imp...
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 wh...
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 m...
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 orga...
