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April 15, 2013
10:01 pm

When Sartre Met Freud

The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre. ed. J. B. Pontalis; tr. Quintin Hoare. March......

March 6, 2013
10:04 pm

Deconstruction and Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Consider now the ability of a race of people who have been persecuted, abused, to forgive......

December 11, 2012
7:15 pm

Recalling Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (a classical defense against Barthes and Sontag)

The task of comparing atrocity documentary and atrocity art is wonderfully demonstrated by Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. For much of the film, as you may recall, Spielberg cinematically recreates......

October 20, 2012
7:14 pm

‘Birthright’ the Romantic Comedy

Steinhardt and Bronfman initiated a program back in 1994 to send Anglo American and Canadians with one Jewish parent on a free 10 day trip to Israel. ...

August 28, 2012
8:33 pm

Occupy Tampa Bay and the Golden Elephant

According to tweets by protesters and observers, demonstrators at the Republican National Convention mixed the Bible with politics on Monday afternoon. Creative protesters carried a golden elephant to protest......

June 22, 2012
2:38 pm

The Invisible Men (a conversation with Yariv Mozer)

"I always wanted to know what it's like to be gay on the other side of the security fence, in the Occupied Territories." says narrator, writer and film......

June 17, 2012
2:46 am

Syrian athletes and the 2012 Summer Games

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, or the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are slated to take place in London, England from the 27th of July to the 12th of August. While the......

May 18, 2012
5:56 pm

The Tal Law: a metaphysical solution for a necessary replacement

On February 21, 2012, Israel's High Court of Justice ruled that the Tal Law – (cutely named for and spearheaded by one former Supreme Court Justice Tzvi Tal) originally passed......

May 4, 2012
11:19 am

Tales from Yagur: A History of Aliya and Ulpan on the Kibbutzim

The atmosphere on Kibbutz Yagur, located on Mount Carmel to the southeast of Haifa, is placid and affable. When I walk into the office of senior kibbutz member, 74-year-old......

March 24, 2012
11:46 am

Tragic drama after the holocaust (nihilism and the French avant-garde)

"To Write Poetry After the Holocaust is Barbaric..." (T. Adorno) I Because tragedy is the imitation of an action – one from which we may be taught virtue and purged of the......

February 12, 2012
9:30 pm

Judaism for the new millennium

Anti-establishment Punk culture and Jewish renewal go hand-in-hand for Evan Kleinman, the Emmy Award nominated founder of Adon Olam Productions and producer of two recently wrapped documentaries that......