A blog about art, politics and shared society in Israel

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‘A woman of distinctly Jewish type’
A chance visit to a Stockholm art exhibition introduced me to a 19th-century female Jewish painter with a 21st-century sensibility, but also served as a…
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'Zion's roads are in mourning...'
At a Tisha B'Av rally in Jerusalem, the audience was asked to hold two separate, arguably contradictory, thoughts in their minds simultaneously
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A non-reluctant pioneer
Alex Weingrod devoted a lifetime to understanding Israeli society. He did so by challenging the conventional wisdom, pursuing his career as an…
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An eighth front, a fifth column
Today, while Israel was still involved in hostilities in both Iran and Gaza, the Knesset took up the case for throwing Ayman Odeh "the terrorist" out of…
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'What if the situation had been reversed?'
That's the question every Israeli needs to ask themself when a Jew kills an Arab because he's in the wrong neighborhood, and the authorities dillydally…
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‘Light is the cheapest building material’
That’s just one of the architectural insights we get from Yael Melamede’s film about her Israel Prize-winning mother Ada Karmi-Melamede. We also get…
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Their 'three lines of history'
An April Holocaust tour of Poland gives rise to thoughts about the meaning of heroism, mutual responsibility and the value of choosing how one will die…
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A blog about art, politics and shared society in Israel
A blog about art, politics and shared society in Israel
The musings and observations of a veteran journalist on Israeli culture and politics, with an emphasis on the contribution of Israel's Palestinian citizens to society
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