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the drum that thunders
Maybe there is some intelligent thinking behind the fact Jews establish identity through matrilineality. Maybe rabbi Akiba saw through the fantasy of ethnic purity, the sham of the blood line and well as understanding that inbreeding, albeit producing some interesting … Continue reading
rivonia and MLK
Not a utopian, but not a negationist either, neither a nihilist. Rather, an unwillingness to be absorbed into the system neither a desire to be an agent or manger of the system. When Obama rebuked Harry Belafonte by saying, “when … Continue reading
Do you compromise?
That’s an ironic headline. Considering it came in a fold-over card weight flyer in the weekend Globe and Mail for State of Israel bonds. Evidently, militarism, belligerence and bad faith negotiating, not to mention illegal settlements, human right violations, and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged arthur goldreich, ateret cohanim oraganization, Buster keaton, david weinfeld, dennis goldberg ANC, dr. sherry cooper, elbit systems, israel africa bonds, israel bonds, israel divestment, john dugard united nations, kalle lasn, meir margalit, melanie lidman, menachem kahana, Noam Chomsky, Rick Salutin, yves engler, Z communications Michael Albert
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outlaw culture: drawn to darkness
Drawn to darkness and obscurity, but with a tenacious grip onto the light. Pure forms existing, withstanding, even though they convey impressions of isolation and alienation. There is a heroism of the outlaw, a kind of aesthetic, a beauty of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged arthur goldreich, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, black september, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, holly downing, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, marlene dumas, noami klein, ronit lentin, stan persky, Z communications Michael Albert
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turning the page
Imagine, the history of the nation hinged on an art book. One of the most dangerous anti-apartheid activists was arrested while reading an art book? What book? Until we find out, we can only speculate, that either it was a … Continue reading
if i forget thee
Lebensraum!A policy based on expansion, usurpation, of the living space of the other to make way for a growing race. Like the Third Reich, the basic intention of Israeli policy. By any other name it is ethnic cleansing. A resettling. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged albert einstein israel, Ariel Sharon, arthur goldreich, David Ben Gurion, denis goldberg, Edgar Cayce, elias bickerman, Gustav Landauer, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, israel apartheid, Jorge Luis Borges, Kahane, kahanism, klugman report, meir margailt, michele alperin, nahum goldmann, tony judt, yakov m. rabkin, yitzhak rabin, yosef salmon
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telling stories about our neighbors
Its an axiom today, that the “story” is not to be trusted, a forewarning of the dangers to be risked of buying into a “good story” . The storyteller is a pejorative term, tenuously linked to the tradition of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged arthur goldreich, arthur goldreich foundation, denis goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hieronymous Bosch, Joann Sfar, Love Crimes of Kabul film HBO, Nicolai Leskov, phyllis chesler, shimon dotan, tanaz eshaghian, Walter Benjamin
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storyteller: the way they were….
From a Rick Salutin piece that appeared in the Toronto Star. I am barely old enough to remember this comedy duo written about by the author but I remember sensing their spirit, vulnerability, insecurity, defiance and basic goodness that made … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged arthur goldreich, Constance Rourke, denis goldberg, emmanuel levinas, joseph heath, Martin Buber, Nicolas Poussin, nikolai leskov, Rembrandt, Rick Salutin, the avalanches frontier psychologist, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, wayne and shuster
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what a wonderful world
A messianic redemption in a revived Israel? In A.M. Klein’s epilogue to the Second Scroll he wrote, “Where shall I find Thee?” It was a search that became more pressing during a time of God’s eclipse when absence dominated; the … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, arthur goldreich, david berlin, denis goldberg, dennis goldberg activist, dennis goldberg ANC, ehud olmert, john dugard, Marc Chagall, Margaret Atwood, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, meir margalit, meron benvenisti, michael ben yair, Nina maria Kleivan, rayan al-shawaf, Rick Salutin, ronnie kasrils, the moral lives of israelis
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