The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/micha-odenheimer/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:37:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Micha Odenheimer | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/micha-odenheimer/ 32 32 They moved school online and locked the underprivileged kids out https://www.timesofisrael.com/they-moved-school-online-and-locked-the-poor-kids-out/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:04:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2284581 Educational authorities have a moral obligation to find solutions for families with limited or no access to computers, internet and tech skills

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]]> We don’t need no climate science https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-need-experts-to-know-about-climate-change/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:24:39 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1543625 We can learn all we need to know about global warming from subsistence farmers struggling for survival

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]]> In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ethiopia-when-the-shooting-got-closer/ Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:57:26 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1470175 In the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos

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]]> What Obama didn’t say (and what he did) https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-obama-didnt-say-and-what-he-did/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:12:09 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1331897 Any serious rejection of anti-Semitism will mention the vicious rhetoric that much of the Islamic world now accepts

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]]> Burundi on the brink: It’s a Jewish Issue https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/burundi-on-the-brink-its-a-jewish-issue-2/ Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:57:31 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1306551 Jews have an obligation to work toward halting the African republic's spiraling violence, because: never again

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]]> Why Sean Penn is coming to Israel https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-sean-penn-is-coming-to-israel/ Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:57:15 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1286701 Despite the Hollywood star’s leftist lean, the idealistic young Israelis he met in Haiti made an impression

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]]> A Nepal prayer to hang in your sukkah https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-sukkot-prayer-for-nepal/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:50:26 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1248084 A fundraiser for earthquake relief efforts offers colorful flags modeled on a Tibetan Buddhist tradition

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]]> Here’s what the fuss is all about, Shimon https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-shimon-peres/ Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:18:41 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1172804 Accepting a lavish Bank Hapoalim salary revealed a shocking disconnect from Israel's harsh social realities

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]]> Judaism’s next great gift to humankind https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/shmita-judaisms-next-gift-to-humankind/ Wed, 07 May 2014 14:57:17 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=974596 Shmita, the biblical Sabbatical Year, offers a blueprint for putting the common good ahead of commercial interests

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]]> Confessions of a game show star https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-lowbrow-detour-off-the-high-road/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:51:00 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=561652 What happens when a man driven by idealism finds himself competing for (and winning) shekels on a popular TV show

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]]> Healing the megilla https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/healing-the-megilla/ Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:49:40 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=386530 Can the Jewish people write a more hopeful ending to the Purim tale's narrative of a bloody triumph over genocide?

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]]> Pay a hefty bribe, or risk being felled by Assad’s snipers https://www.timesofisrael.com/pay-a-hefty-bribe-or-risk-being-felled-by-assads-snipers/ Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:12:23 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=162674 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

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]]> Syrian troops ordered to kill 5% of participants at all protests, ‘ex-commander’ tells The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-troops-under-orders-to-kill-5-of-participants-in-all-protests-ex-commander-tells-the-times-of-israel/ Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:30:18 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=159572 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

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