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stuck in the in-between space
Clearly, the kind of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Israel easily spilling, absurdly, into a kind of biological racism is not endemic to the Arab world in the same way that characterized the Jewish experience in Europe from east to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham "Bren" Adan, Andy Williams, Ariel Sharon, David Ben Gurion, Gen. Giora Eiland, Hannah Arendy, Jodi Rudoren, Judith Butler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Operation Pillar of Defense, Raden Saleh, Richard Silverstein, Theodor Adorno, Yishai Fleisher, Yitzhak Shamir
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In the jaws of the crocodile
People are the product of history. The way nations see, dress, think and formulate reality are much based on the parameters that over time, form a wall of convention, the box to which the comfort zone of convenience installs and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron ben Moses, Bashar Al Assad, Cal Shenkel, Captain Beefheart, Charles Manson, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibn Sahl manuscript, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Margaret Atwood The Blind Assasin, Max Horkheimer, Mursi Egypt, Snell's law, The Aleppo Codex, Theodor Adorno
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hayseeds go back to the country
To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading
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Tagged Ali al-Ahmed IGA, Bob Dylan Can't Wait, david yerushalmi, Esther Hoffe, Eva Hoffe, Franz Kafka, Judith Butler, Katya Adler BBC, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Meidner, Madame Pickwick, Max Brod, Max Burchartz, Melanne Verveer, oskar schlemmer, Pamela Geller, Ray Hanania, Sergei Eisenstein, The Institute for Gulf Affairs, uri avnery, Walter Benjamin
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chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees
Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … Continue reading
into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter
Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir
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above the law: shadows of angels
Germany using Israeli lawyers to help “repatriate” Kafka manuscripts and literary legacy back to Germany. Keeping the works under lock and key, like incarcerated hostages out of Jozef Fritzl. It should burnish the national brand, used as export propaganda for … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold zweig, Daniel Schmid, David Zane Mairowitz, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Gottfried Helnwein, Hannah Arendt, hans fricke, isaac babel, Judith Butler, justin vicari, kafka manuscripts, louis begley, Milena Jesenska, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Crumb
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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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