Micha Odenheimer is a rabbi, journalist, and social entrepreneur. He was born in Berkeley, California, graduated with honors from Yale University with a BA in Religious Studies in 1980, was a close disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and in 1985 was ordained as an Orthodox Rabbi by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the leading authority on Jewish Law in his generation. Since moving to Israel in 1988, Micha has written for Haaretz, the Washington Post, the Jerusalem Post, and other publications from Ethiopia, Somalia, Iraq, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Haiti during times of crisis and transition. He has written extensively on Judaism and economic justice, and is the founder of two nonprofit organizations: the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (now the Association of Ethiopian Jews), an advocacy organization, and Tevel b'Tzedek, which works with subsistence villages in the Global South. Micha was awarded the Boris Smolar Award for Journalism in 1998 and the Flegg Jewish Peoplehood Prize by Hebrew University in 2005.