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    • 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 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...
    • 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 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 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 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
    • 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 ...

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