Olga Gershenson, covering the Jerusalem Film Festival for Tikkun, reviews “Lieber-Man."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive”
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Olga Gershenson, covering the Jerusalem Film Festival for Tikkun, reviews "Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “God of the Piano” and “Red Fields”
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Olga Gershenson, covering the Jerusalem Film Festival for Tikkun, reviews "God of the Piano" and "Red Fields."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Picturing Our Possible Futures
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Phillip Barcio reviews new exhibitions by Inka Essenhigh and Matthew Couper which both address climate change, albeit in radically different ways.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Peaches & Cream”
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Olga Gershenson reviews "Peaches & Cream," a film whose cynical view of the #MeToo movement puts it "out of sync with its time."
Israel/Palestine
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Chained”
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Olga Gershenson reviews "Chained," a film by Yaron Shani that blurs the line between fiction and real life.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Acts of War
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"No, he did not know, as his mother and father did, what it meant to truly be afraid for one’s life." A short story by Becky Tuch.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Ruin Pub
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"[She] tapped out another Kent from her packet, handing it to him. See, she wanted to say, capitalists can be generous." A short story by Julie Zuckerman.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Book Review: Journey to Open Orthodoxy by Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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Joshua Shanes argues that Rabbi Avi Weiss's book on Open Orthodoxy both provides a loving entry into Judaism and a complex, problematic relationship between Judaism and Zionism.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Colin Greer Poems: Mezuzah and All in the Family
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He’s wearing a Trump mask rubber / I notice / I don’t care - Two poems by Colin Greer
Arts & Cultural Critique
Making the Universe Great Again
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Charles Eisenstein reviews Avengers: Endgame and argues that it reflects—and, worse, indoctrinates us in—disturbing trends in politics and society.
Tikkun Daily
Exhibition Review: About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art
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Phillip Barcio reviews About Face, a new exhibition of queer art that, by acknowledging and respecting otherness, invites us to bridge differences.
“In the West we are short on time”
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In this review, Anna Newman calls Brenda Hillman's newest poetry collection "an ecopoetical elegy for Hillman’s loved ones, for nature, and for political activism."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Book Review: The Gospel According to Lazarus by Richard Zimler
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Jacob Staub argues that Zimler's latest novel is "a midrash on a Christian text," one whose central claim is that Jews can "reclaim the real Jesus, recast in our image."
Arts & Cultural Critique
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”: A Review
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese," a film that plays with our sense of truth, fiction, reality, time, and memory.