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Rebels With A Cause

Scott Krane — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:14:21 +0000

The study of history shows countless coincidences when a social, aesthetic, political or religious trend has permeated the geographical or spiritual fabric. One example is the founding of the Chassidic movement in Eastern European Jewry in the 18th century and the Great Awakening among Colonial American Puritans during roughly the same time. Around the [...]

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When Sartre Met Freud

Scott Krane — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:01:37 +0000

The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre. ed. J. B. Pontalis; tr. Quintin Hoare. March 2013. Verso. ($26.95). 549 pages. Version I (1959): FIRST PORTER, apologetically We though something was on fire. FREUD Nothing’s on fire. SECOND PORTER, Really? FREUD, curt and ironical Really. He moves to close the door again. The [...]

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Deconstruction and Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Scott Krane — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:04:03 +0000

Consider now the ability of a race of people who have been persecuted, abused, to forgive their antagonists. African Americans who were stolen from their homeland did not seek direct revenge from their oppressors when the Confederacy lost the American Civil War in 1865. Not on a mass, militaristic or political scale. They did not [...]

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

Scott Krane — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:15:24 +0000

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 Nazi-era photography. Therefore, especially in the era of Holocaust-denial, what ethical censure could be brought against Steven Spielberg, whose work gives new meaning to the interplay [...]

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‘Birthright’ the Romantic Comedy

Scott Krane — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:14:07 +0000

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. Today, ‘Taglit/Birthright‘ has become so popular, so household, so ingrained in contemporary Jewish culture, it is now the backdrop for a new full-length, romantic-comedy that serves up the [...]

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Occupy Tampa Bay and the Golden Elephant

Scott Krane — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:33:13 +0000

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 Mitt Romney’s affiliation with Bain Capital. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tweeted: ”Protesters [are] mocking the republicans with a golden elephant. Quite creative…” Demonstrators twisted and gyrated their bodies [...]

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The Invisible Men (a conversation with Yariv Mozer)

Scott Krane — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:38:24 +0000

“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 producer, Yariv Mozer, as the first few shots of his new documentary, ‘The Invisible Men,’ flash across the screen, depicting security barriers and lonesome desert highways. “I [...]

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Syrian athletes and the 2012 Summer Games

Scott Krane — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:46:19 +0000

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 situation in Syria (13,000 dead and counting) continues to whirlpool into a situation that can only be defined as civil war, it seems appropriate to president Bashar [...]

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The Tal Law: a metaphysical solution for a necessary replacement

Scott Krane — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:12 +0000

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 on July 23, 2002, mandating that at age 22, yeshiva students may choose between a truncated 16-month IDF service and a one-year civil service program alongside a [...]

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

Scott Krane — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:19:36 +0000

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 Benny Shiloh, a formal introduction is not necessary. As I approach the desk to shake Mr. Shiloh’s hand where he sits, I ask him what book it [...]

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

Scott Krane — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:46:41 +0000

”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 inherent sickness in our mortal souls – there is an underlying quality of goodness and justice that exists embedded in the lines of history [...]

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Judaism for the new millennium

Scott Krane — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:30:14 +0000

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 explore the breadth of Jewish identity in the new millennium. Kleinman began work on his two new documentaries, We Are Still Here and Punk Jews at about [...]

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