Becoming A Ghost Of Oneself Through Technology
One of the newest technological rages today is Pokemon-Go. Young people use the GPS on their smartphones to go out into the external world to find virtual creatures called Pokemon that they capture,...
Cuny Under The Antisemitism Microscope 2016
The poster on the door of the Hillel at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reads “Safe Zone.” Above it hangs an Israeli flag, an American flag and another sign: “Israel wants peace.”
Take two...
Legendary Jewish Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Meets a Tragic End
There is tragic irony in the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death on March 19 of American Jewish Civil Rights photographer Bob Adelman. An ongoing police investigation will attempt to explain how Adelson, 85, was...
Hero: Mexico’s UNESCO envoy walked out to protest Islamist resolution on Jerusalem, now may...
Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays.
He is also a hero.
When...
Parashat Naso נָשֹׂא
The word Naso (“נָשֹׂא”) in Gematria is 351, the same value of the terms “Beni Dor Dea’a” in Hebrew ("בני דור דעה"), the generation of knowledge, receiving the Torah. As well as “Davar Galuie...
A closer look at Jewish identity in Israel and the U.S.
Nearly all Jews in the United States and Israel say they are proud to be Jewish, and large majorities in both countries say they feel a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. But...
Yiddish Translation in Canada: A Litmus Test for Continuity
Yiddish translation in Canada has evolved in two directions: from world languages into Yiddish, and from Yiddish into other languages, specifically English and French. This dual function of Yiddish as a target language and...
How This Ex-Orthodox Yeshiva Student Became a Star In the Arab Music World
Ziv Yehezkel is a man full of contradictions. He is at once a deeply religious Jewish man, but also a zealous lover of Arabic music.
The soloist of Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, the 31 year-old...
Two Remarkable Women
When I was in my twenties, one of my favorite books was, “Meetings with Remarkable Men” by George Gurdjieff. Recently, I had my meeting with two remarkable women, Deborah Szekely and Vivian Blackstone.
Szkeley just...
Mon Dieu! C’est Manifest Destnitis!
Moliere is smiling. The multi-talented actor and playwright, Herbert Siguenza, has breathed new life into his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Manifest Destinitis is set two centuries later in 19th century “old or Alta California”....