Micha Odenheimer, at The Blogs

Oct 9, 2024, 4:18 PM

Forget about everything else for now, no matter how important, and lets ask straight up: Is Trump good for the Jews? Trump’s Jewish supporters are convinced he is. They will cite the move of the United States Embassy to...

Sep 23, 2024, 4:48 AM

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Kamala, what’s your plan for Iran?

Iranians burn an Israeli flag during the funeral ceremony of Hamas terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel, at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

For any peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Iran and its proxies would have to stop trying to destroy the Jewish state. But how would Harris stop a nuclear Iran?

Nov 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

Proportionality? Not in this War

There is this thing about Jews: We’ve had some traumatic experiences with genocide which we prefer not to repeat. And so when Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah tell us they want to destroy the Jewish state, we have found that...

Oct 13, 2023, 9:26 AM

We can’t forget who we are, especially now

This Sabbath we open a new cycle of the annual reading of the Torah with “Bereshit,” the creation story, and not a minute too soon. After days of murder and mayhem, with the question “How could this have been...

Jan 8, 2023, 6:17 PM

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10 precepts for a new Israeli center

Illustrative: A child holds Israeli flags ahead of Israel 73rd Independence day, at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, April 13, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

The principles uniting a solid majority of citizens would need to speak fluent Jewish, reflect patriotism, and uphold the primacy of democracy and human rights

Feb 3, 2021, 2:17 PM

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What we can learn from conspiracy theories

David Reinert, a QAnon founder, holding a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally with President Donald Trump and Republican US Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., August 2, 2018, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/ Matt Rourke)

Millions of people across the globe, including Orthodox Jews, believe in these malignant narratives. How can we prevent these insane ideas from threatening democracy?

Aug 4, 2020, 4:12 PM

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Fish gotta swim, Bibi’s gotta…resign

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a statement at the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020 following the high tensions with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the Israeli-Lebanon border. (Photo by Tal SHAHAR / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu is likely to do what he himself predicted anyone in his position would do: make decisions aimed at keeping himself out of jail

Jul 7, 2020, 3:03 PM

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What ‘defund the police’ tells us about this moment in democracy

Ethiopians and supporters demonstrate against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian Israeli, Solomon Tekah, who was shot and killed in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Jerusalem, July 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Those men and women in blue are symbols and agents of regimes that increasingly hamper our ability to control our own fate

Jul 3, 2020, 6:37 PM

Dreams for the 4th of July

As all of us know, demonstrations against police brutality, specifically against African Americans, have swept across all of the major cities of the United States. Here in Israel as well, since the killing of Solomon Teka, an unarmed 18...

Mar 19, 2020, 6:12 PM

The Good in the Bad: Reflections on Pandemic Days

These days—pandemic days—are bad days. People are getting sick and dying, and its really bad that those already older or weaker are especially in danger, and so bad that instead of being able to hug each other and comfort...

About Me

Micha Odenheimer is a journalist, rabbi, and social entrepreneur. Micha founded the Israel Association or Ethiopian Jews, the first advocacy organization dedicated to changing absorption policies, and Tevel b'Tzedek, an Israeli organization working with impoverished subsistence farmers in the Global South. Micha has written for numerous publications, including Haaretz, the Washington Post, and the Jerusalem Report from Ethiopia, Somalia, Iraq, Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other countries.