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Tag Archives: Maimonides
land of milk and bunny
The rupture the internet meme was too hot for the “nerfies” in polyester yarn slippers at Madame Pickwick so the erstwhile Kardashian’s butt was still covered but re-branded as a Studio Backstage pub for the Montreal creative bar. “The society … Continue reading
soul people: complex essence for the perplexed
If we go back to the Middle Ages, we enter a realm when reason was put into service of the miraculous, and science, as such, was half fantasy. There was little theorizing. Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell was painted in specific, minute … Continue reading
dream on: brisky business
When we look at a dream, it can become our own, and our own interpretation of it can become a legitimate one… Like so many artists of extreme individuality, William Blake must be accepted without question or completely rejected. His … Continue reading
today’s menu
“Following the Equator”. It was a book, a travelogue by Mark twain at the turn of the century that by today’s standards is pretty mediocre but it contained one jewel of an idea that almost redeemed it: That is, that … Continue reading
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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a thousand tears ago: no year 1K crisis
A thousand years ago, our forebears were said to have lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… All those years ago. Some say that a new Dark Age … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Battle of Lechfeld, Battle of Recknitz, Constantinople History, Cordoba medieval Spain, German Otto the Great, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Otto I the Great, Poland Catholic Origins, Polish Duke Mieszko, Sigmund Meisterlin' Codex, Spain Omiad dynasty, The Dark Age
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where’s that fire?
Going back over a thousand years ago, no less a figure than Maimonides remarked on the Jewish tendency to denial, a characteristic, he asserted that would only hasten their destruction. Although the context for Maimonides consternation was based on his … Continue reading
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