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the devil in the details
An evolving sense of the devil. In the world of Hieronymous Bosch, synonymous with Northern Renaissance painting where in spite of joys and diversions the known world, the worldview is permeated with tragedy, malevolence and the mysterious. But leaping from … Continue reading
jerusalem day: if I forget thee
The power of identity. But is it about bolting it down to the weight of tradition or about creating a whole new world? We could begin by asking, using the theoretical base of Jean Baudrillard, to question whether Jerusalem even … Continue reading
tablets: square to fit snug
The War of the Words….Or, trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. There is a popular conception that the ten commandments as given to Moses on Mount Sinai were rounded at the top. Not true. In fact, … Continue reading
drunk with intellectual passion
Everyone has a Golden Calf inside of them, the need of worshipping and staying attached to forms, to feed the form as it were. And the difference between building something more durable and divine as opposed to allowing these forms … Continue reading
reattaching the spark
The Baal Shem Tov. Perhaps the quintessential figure of modern Jewish history. Certainly the most fascinating. Before his time in the first half of the eighteenth century Jewish life was stuck up and constipated; none of the so-called Jewish humour … Continue reading
short memories
It can be supposed that Shimon Peres was trying his hand at nice guy politics, but still, there is a reality gap of credulity at some point here. The Russians have been trying to make nice lately, but unfortunately there … Continue reading
Dreyfus: big lies and big sticks
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was the end of the nineteenth century and his exoneration in 1906 coincided with the birth of modernism. The double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians and anti-Semites posing as patriots have remained on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, Bernard Lazare anarchist, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Peguy, Emile Zola, Henri Biva paintings, Jean Jaures French Socialist, Joseph Reinach, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Georges Picquart, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marc Chagall, Marcel Proust, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth Harris author, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert historian
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coke or pepsi?
Who is more dishonest, the Left or the Right? If Nate Silver was polling this scientifically, he would likely -19 times out of 20 with 5% deposit refundable on the empties- call it leaning with a qualified toss-up. It ultimately … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alison Weir, Arik Ascherman, Brian Wilson, Camille Pissarro, Dore Gold Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, ed koch, Edgar Degas, Ehud Yaari WINEP, Elad Association, Gideon Levy, glenn greenwald, ilan pappe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall hadassah Hospital windows, meron benvenisti, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, The Carter Doctrine, thomas friedman new york times, Zalman Shoval
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eyeless in benghazi
It smells funny. Its not the sulphur in a Libya oil field, but more like rotting fish on the Delaware… There would ostensibly have been enough time. The so-called mob, after sacking the KFC franchise, apparently had enough casual spare … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ambassador Stevens Libya, Bernard Levy, Heather Childers, Henri Bernard-Levy, J. Christopher Stevens, Jane Whiting Chrzanoska, Kevin DuJan, Le Point Cet Islam Sans Gene, Leon Panetta, Libya Bani Walid, Marc Chagall, Operation Urgent Fury, SEAL Glen Doherty, thomas friedman new york times, Tony Shaffer, Tony Shaffer Fox, Wilhelm von Schadow
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family planning
Population control. The Malthus nightmare. Limited procreation to maintain national characterstics. An affront to bourgeois values, liberal, humanistic axioms. As Allan Greenspan said, “a billion is not what it used to be.” But a billion moslems facing off against an … Continue reading
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Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Allan Greenspan, Christopher Hitchens, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Gilles Kepel, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Batuta, Igal Hecht, Kenan Malik, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Mark Steyn, MK Israel Eichler, oriana fallaci, Paul Ehrlich, Sam Harris, Sam harris The End of faith, Siavosh, Sultan Salim II, Tzipi Livni, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid
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