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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 abou...
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    Netanyahu Blames everyone but himself

    One well-known example of “chutzpah” is someone who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy from the court because he is an orphan. Wa...
    • Sep 1, 2019
    • 14 min

    The Great Fake

    Imagine a shiny Cadillac pulls up to your house and a guy in a fancy suit, smelling of cologne, knocks on your door. “Just sign this,” he...
    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 17 min

    Masters of the Universe

    Israel's economic planners have fallen under the sway of the International Monetary Fund, and are hypnotized by the Credit Rating Agencie...
    • 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 neo-liber...
    • 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 re...
    • 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 differe...
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 13 min

    Messiah Now

    Chabad Messianists, the Rebbe, and the Future of Judaism On April 9 this year, some four thousand men and women crammed into Yad Eliyahu,...
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 10 min

    יד לא נעלמה

    ברדיפה אחרי כסף וכוח הולכים ומשתלטים כמה תאגידי ענק על משאבי הטבע והכלכלה של העולם כולו. התהליך, אשר גורם להרס חייהם ותרבותם של מאות מילי...
    • Feb 25, 2019
    • 14 min

    The Brutal Regime Across the Red Sea

    Eritreans in Israel claim they are refugees from a murderous regime. In their thousands, they have braved Sudan and the Sinai desert in ...
    • 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 migra...
    • 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 imp...
    • 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 wh...
    • 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 m...
    • 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. Bel...
    • 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 orga...
    • 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 c...
    • 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 fr...
    • 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 his...

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