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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...
Mar 26, 201917 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 25, 201914 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 24, 201912 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 14, 201918 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, 20197 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, 201912 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, 20193 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, 201910 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, 20197 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...
Feb 6, 201913 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...
Jan 17, 201912 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...
Nov 21, 200312 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...
Aug 30, 200211 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...
Apr 7, 20027 min read
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