Witches and Vampires, Jewish Legends and Historical Narrative by Tzafrir Barzilay
June 4, 2012 at 7:17 pm by Timna Burston
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Jewish history repeats itself in Dark Shadows.
Jews and Other “Aliens” -or- The Merchant of LV-426
May 29, 2012 at 11:19 am by dmkwait
Aliens as a conversation piece for anti-Semitism…
No Words, Only Jokes: “The Afterlife” according to Paul Simon (and the Talmud) (and Pop)
May 21, 2012 at 10:23 am by Jonah Rank
Guided by complementary visions of the afterlife from Paul Simon, the Talmud and an old Jewish joke, Jonah imagines his late grandfather in the afterlife.
A Very Narrow World & The Edge of Destruction: Next to Normal
March 29, 2012 at 6:13 pm by Jonah Rank
The rock opera Next to Normal is all about living on the edge. Living on the edge of normal. Living on the edge of comfort. Living on the edge of stability. Τhe show breathes life into a peculiar teaching attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: The world is a very narrow bridge, but the essence [...]
A Lorax Tu Bishvat – It Is a Tree of Life
February 2, 2012 at 1:45 pm by Timna Burston
The Lorax, a modern parable for the Jewish mystic.
Reversing “Shfoch Chamatcha Al Hagoyim” – Images from South Africa
April 22, 2011 at 11:04 am by Timna Burston
I have always found the following passage, read each year during Passover, rather alarming: “Shfoch Chamatcha Al Hagoyim” meaning, literally, “Pour out your wrath unto the gentiles.” I recently learned that one of the reasons Jews traditionally open their door to let the prophet Elijah in was to make sure that they kept the [...]
Toy Story 2 as Yachatz: A Break in the Middle
April 20, 2011 at 11:29 pm by Jonah Rank
How long does it take to break? What happens when we are most brittle?