Writing from the Global South

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...