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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Micha Odenheimer

Micha Odenheimer

Micha Odenheimer is a journalist, rabbi, and social entrepreneur who founded Tevel b'Tzedek, an Israeli organization doing development work and offering a Jewish platform for service learning with impoverished and marginalized communities in the developing world. Micha has written for numerous publications from Ethiopia, Somalia, Iraq, Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia.
April 16, 2020, 4:04 pm
They moved school online and locked the underprivileged kids out
Educational authorities have a moral obligation to find solutions for families with limited or no access to computers, internet and tech skills
By Shula Mola and Micha Odenheimer
Micha Odenheimer
January 19, 2017, 1:24 pm
Micha Odenheimer
We don’t need no climate science
We can learn all we need to know about global warming from subsistence farmers struggling for survival
In Bahir Dar, capital of the Amhara region, young men protest against the ruling Tigrayan-led government, August 7, 2016 (Courtesy Micha Odenheimer)
October 5, 2016, 1:57 pm
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
By Micha Odenheimer
Micha Odenheimer
February 1, 2016, 2:12 pm
Micha Odenheimer
What Obama didn’t say (and what he did)
Any serious rejection of anti-Semitism will mention the vicious rhetoric that much of the Islamic world now accepts
Micha Odenheimer
December 21, 2015, 1:57 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Burundi on the brink: It’s a Jewish Issue
Jews have an obligation to work toward halting the African republic’s spiraling violence, because: never again
Micha Odenheimer
November 18, 2015, 3:57 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Why Sean Penn is coming to Israel
Despite the Hollywood star’s leftist lean, the idealistic young Israelis he met in Haiti made an impression
Micha Odenheimer
September 9, 2015, 2:50 pm
Micha Odenheimer
A Nepal prayer to hang in your sukkah
A fundraiser for earthquake relief efforts offers colorful flags modeled on a Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Micha Odenheimer
April 26, 2015, 12:18 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Here’s what the fuss is all about, Shimon
Accepting a lavish Bank Hapoalim salary revealed a shocking disconnect from Israel’s harsh social realities
Micha Odenheimer
May 7, 2014, 5:57 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Judaism’s next great gift to humankind
Shmita, the biblical Sabbatical Year, offers a blueprint for putting the common good ahead of commercial interests
Micha Odenheimer
June 20, 2013, 3:51 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Confessions of a game show star
What happens when a man driven by idealism finds himself competing for (and winning) shekels on a popular TV show
Micha Odenheimer
February 24, 2013, 1:49 am
Micha Odenheimer
Healing the megilla
Can the Jewish people write a more hopeful ending to the Purim tale’s narrative of a bloody triumph over genocide?
Syrian refugees speak with The Times of Israel at the Jaber border crossing into Jordan (photo credit: M and N Odenheimer)
July 17, 2012, 6:12 am
Pay a hefty bribe, or risk being felled by Assad’s snipers
Refugees who have fled Syria for Jordan tell The Times of Israel how they made it out — and why some of them, having tasted relative safety, have no choice but to go back
By Micha Odenheimer and Natan Odenheimer
Syrian children chanting slogans hold a poster with Arabic that reads, "Patience is good, and God is the one who helps," in Idlib province, Syria, on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)
July 13, 2012, 1:30 am
Syrian troops ordered to kill 5% of participants at all protests, ‘ex-commander’ tells The Times of Israel
Man who says he was a senior officer in Assad’s military intelligence directorate, now hiding out in Jordan, says dozens of his own soldiers were slaughtered when they refused to fire on demonstrators near Damascus
By Micha Odenheimer and Natan Odenheimer
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