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Mar 26, 201917 min read
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...


Feb 25, 201914 min read
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, 201912 min read
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...


Feb 13, 201918 min read
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, 20197 min read
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, 201912 min read
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, 20193 min read
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...


Feb 6, 201910 min read
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, 20197 min read
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, 201913 min read
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...


Jan 17, 201912 min read
In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer
In the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos Link to...


Nov 21, 200312 min read
Such Fragile Threads
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4766470 The longing of the Iraqi people for a society based on basic human rights sometimes appears strong...


Aug 30, 200211 min read
Laughing in the face of despair
http://burmatoday.net/newsarchives/news_020830_laughting.htm Burma is an entrancingly beautiful country of Buddhist monks and hill-tribe...


Apr 7, 20027 min read
Where Stalin Has Admirers, and Maoists Fight On
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/04/07/where-stalin-has-admirers-and-maoists-fight-on/98e7f056-c5e3-4889-b784-beb842d...
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