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Dec 25, 2023, 5:59 PM

Wave Flags that Tell the Truth

Having been professor of art and education at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, I am an expert on the power of visual images. However, anyone can see the radical difference between the...

Nov 27, 2023, 11:00 AM

NYU to Study the New Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

I am proud to be an alumnus of NYU, a university that stands out above all others. Its new President Linda G. Mills stands heads taller than the leaders of many US universities who choose to see moral equivalence...

Nov 7, 2023, 2:42 PM

How can Artists be so Blind to Hamas Barbarity?

Artists who signed a letter published in Artforum and other leading art and culture publications are blind to differences between death & destruction and light & peace. How can these artists be blind to the utter barbarity of the Hamas...

Oct 22, 2023, 3:10 PM

Hamas is the reincarnation of Amalek

This article is a sequel to my Time of Israel article “Emblems of Israel and Hamas tell the whole story” of June 3, 2021. It contrasts Israel’s emblem that shows a menorah and olive branches that represent light and...

Jun 1, 2023, 12:57 PM

Biden Views Killing Jews in Israel Not Antisemitic

President Biden should take off his blinders and see the most virulent antisemites in the world. These genocidal Jew haters are the PLO/Hamas who proudly announce their murderous intentions in their visual emblems and charters. The White House unveiled the...

May 21, 2023, 12:25 PM

Metaverses Creating Spiritual & Virtual Worlds

I discovered in the first verses of the Torah the concealed codes for creating spiritual and virtual metaverses that had been hidden for 3,500 years. They were revealed by my creative reading of Genesis in Hebrew, the original language...

May 5, 2023, 1:10 PM

King Charles III Honored by Rembrandt Cyberangels

In honor of the Coronation of King Charles III on May 6. 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London, I created this visual narrative that can be minted as an NFT. The image in the narrative begins with a virtual...

May 1, 2023, 4:57 PM

Supreme Court Architecture Speaks to Israel Today

Rembrandt and Chagall Angels of Peace Meet in the Knesset in a Different Spirit The dialogic architecture of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem offers creative ways for solving the current dilemma that shapes what happens inside the courtrooms and...

Sep 1, 2022, 7:14 PM

Zionist Artist in the Age of NFTs

In honor of the 125th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress in Basel Renew the old and sanctify the new I draw inspiration from the Zionist challenge of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to “renew the old and sanctify the new” as...

Oct 28, 2021, 12:32 AM

Abraham’s Eight Sons from Israel to UAE to India

A year after the United States brokered Abraham Accords were signed between Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco, the foreign ministers of Israel, US and UAE launched a Joint Economic Forum with India. While the Forum was being...

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About Me

Mel Alexenberg is an artist, educator, writer, and blogger working at the interface between art, technology, Jewish thought, and living the Zionist miracle in Israel. He is the author of "Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media," "The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness," and "Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art" in Hebrew. He was professor at Columbia, Bar-Ilan and Ariel universities and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His artworks are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide. He lives in Ra’anana, Israel, with his wife artist Miriam Benjamin.