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Culture and ArtDecember, 2005
August, 2005
Ashes and Snow and the Nomadic Museum
June, 2005
The new Museum of the American Indian, plus Esther Nussbaum on Yad Vashem
May, 2005
Walking through The Gates
March, 2005
February, 2005
Why it's cool to hate the Jews
January, 2005
Artists on 9/11 and the war on/of terror
October, 2004
A family of Guatemalan Jewish artists
September, 2004
A reappraisal of Modigliani la juif
August, 2004
Historical revisionism and the new antisemitism in academia.
January, 2004
Constitutive ritual for distributed families
May, 2003
James Turrell and the truth of light
April, 2003
The ambiguities of art and life
March, 2003
The soft borders between Jewish particularism and universalism
February, 2003
Anxiety on the National Mall
January, 2003
Arte Povera, Damien Hirst, and annoying pomo intellectualism
December, 2002
Pierre Bonnard at the Phillips Collection
November, 2002
Why modern art survives in a postmodern age
October, 2002
The Art of the Press Conference
September, 2002
Totalitarianism, kitsch, and Mamma Mia
August, 2002
What is modernism?
July, 2002
What's the difference between laughing with art and laughing at it?
June, 2002
At college art classes, looking for the real art among the posing.
May, 2002
What draws protesters to banal holocaust art?
April, 2002
Books
Bernard Henri-Levy on the death of Daniel Pearl
July, 2003 Symposium of Douglas Rushkoff's Nothing Sacred
A review of Douglas Rushkoff's Nothing Sacred
A 'lapsed Jew' responds to Nothing Sacred
Fiction, Essay and Memoir
Film, Theater, TV & Media
CBS's packaging of the '9/11' documentary reveals exactly what America
fails to understand about September 11.
Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the pervasive, sinister institution of
domestic violence.
Cinema can help expose ourselves to the world, or it can seduce us to sit
back and relax.
Harry Potter is cute, but is it a bad thing that adults crave escapism?
Jay's Head
Making peace with Jesus
Freedom and the Ordinary
Notes from and after retreat
Between contemplation and affirmation
What is 'energy'? Is it nonsense?
Changes of season and changes of heart
Why Black Rock City matters
or, The Opposite of Sex
Sex, drugs, and God in all
Hypercapitalism as Satanism
Dick Cheney and the New Age
...and what to do about it
What my grandmother's suffering teaches
Life beyond the idea of limits
When life seems irresolvably absurd
Tips and advice from my first gay year
Summer days, summer nights are gone...
Why is it easier to see God in nature than in the city?
Being at one with Being
New York, full of life, a cure for loneliness.
If the desert feeds the spirit, and Paris delights the senses, what does
McDonald's do?
May, 2002
Am I an environmentalist for the same reasons I don't like to spend money?
With stories today about space aliens and the power of prayer, what are
the limits of your enlightened skepticism?
When is it okay to like what the uncool kids like?
What can a guy shouting 'whoo hoo!' at a concert tell us about a life well
lived?
Two related theories about Bob Dylan, or, a review of his November 19,
2001 show, in which divine revelation plays a significant role.
Poetry and Dramatic Writing
June, 2003
March, 2003
June, 2002
May, 2002
April, 2002
March, 2002
February, 2002
January, 2002
The best guarantor of democracy is subversive, oppositional
counterculture.
Aaron Hamburger's Faith for Beginners
December, 2005
Veronica Golos' Poetic Midrash
November, 2005
On Men who Stare at Goats
October, 2005
Reviewing the new Schocken anthology
September, 2005
Robert Pinsky on the King
September, 2005
Mark Kurlansky's new boogaloo
August, 2005
On meditation and Judaism
July, 2005
A review of You are My Witness: The Living Words of Marshall Meyer
June, 2005
A masculinist encounters The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex (with other people)
June, 2005
A review of Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer
May, 2005
A review of Esther Kaplan's With God on their Side
March, 2005
How I learned to stop worrying and write a novel about Israel
February, 2005
The last words of Israel's soldier-poet
January, 2005
A bereaved mother, a rabbi, and a therapist look at dark emotions
December, 2004
Secularism, Kabbalah, and Radical Poetics
December, 2004
Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America"
November, 2004
What's lost and found in two new translations of the psalms
September, 2004
The Zeek interview
May, 2004
Two new books on Bush, taxes, and lies
March, 2004
Robert Meeropol's An Execution in the Family
January, 2004
Two Zeek editors discuss running, spirituality, and Running the Spiritual Path
December, 2003
September, 2003
Douglas Rushkoff talks with Zeek about the future of Judaism
July, 2003
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December, 2003
July, 2003
On the disabled in film
July, 2005
What to make of the recent spate of Jewish theater productions?
April, 2005
February, 2005
Querying the queering of capitalism
December, 2004
Jonathan Caouette's art-house smash
November, 2004
The spirit and the machine
August, 2004
Faux feminism on the silver screen
June, 2004
Eternal Sunshine: The Ultimate Passover Movie
April, 2004
On the Mel Gibson film and the passions of religion
March, 2004
The superficial thrills of Kill Bill
November, 2003
Lost in Translation: A snapshot of the evansescent
October, 2003
The other reality TV
August, 2003
May Tricks: Reel-or-Dead?
June, 2003
The new Israeli smash hit
May, 2003
Ali G.: The Poseur's Poseur
April, 2003
The interdependence of fantasy and reality
February, 2003
Viewing the 1950s through its own fantastic prism
January, 2003
Will the star of 8 Mile be America's next working class hero?
December, 2002
How Hollywood misunderstands fear
November, 2002
How to be Spike Lee instead of another Clocker
October, 2002
Sean Penn and intertextuality
September, 2002
The limited vision of Minority Report
August, 2002
The personal politics of this summer's blockbusters.
June, 2002
A review of "The Paradise Institute," a meditation on frames, judgment,
and power.
May, 2002
April, 2002
March, 2002
February, 2002
December, 2005
November, 2005
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July, 2005
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May, 2005
April, 2005
March, 2005
On the anthropology of contemplative practice
February, 2005
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October, 2005
June, 2005
A Review of Val Geffner, and alienation
November, 2004
On scoring films, golems, and shiksas
August, 2004
Brooklyn's latest hepster yids make good
July, 2004
Inside Israel's curious opera ban
May, 2004
From Israeli speed-metal to Jewish post-jazz
November, 2003
The prophetic justice of Johnny Cash
October, 2003
Four modern Orthodox breakbeat musicians on Jewish art
May, 2003
Zeek remembers Joe Strummer
January, 2003
Will the controversial rapper be America's next working class hero?
December, 2002
How Weird Al changed my life, and Randy Newman changed the world.
April, 2002
Mariah Carey? Bleagh! Where's the next Country Joe & the Fish to protest
the 'New War'?
March, 2002
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An unlikely hero for an unlikely time
November, 2005
Israel and Palestine, as seen through their postcards
September, 2005
Before the fall
August, 2005
A conversation with two campus activists
July, 2005
On Jewish anarchists
April, 2005
The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs: An appreciation
March, 2005
Should liberals compromise their ideals in order to remain relevant?
January, 2005
A report from the campaign's front lines: home
January, 2005
Reality and rhetoric in an election year
October, 2004
An interview with the Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Director
October, 2004
A debate between the author of "A Jewish Critique of Bushism" and the head of "L.A. for Bush"
October, 2004
The deep structure of the American Right's appeal
August, 2004
Catching up with some famous refugees
May, 2004
Reading Toqueville in an Election Year
April, 2004
The News from San Francisco
March, 2004
To fear a Jewish president
February, 2004
A translation of the November, 2003, interview by an Israeli tabloid with four former Israeli intelligence directors.
December, 2003
The ambiguous truth behind the two stone tablets, recently removed from Alabama's judicial building.
December, 2003
Is France Antisemitic?
November, 2003
Is Zionism Colonialism?
June, 2003
Jewish sex radicalism in the New World Order
May, 2003
The weird and worrying links between the radical Left and the Islamist Right
April, 2003
Fearing the Germans for the Wrong Reasons
April, 2003
Confrontation and cooperation in the face of odious leaders
February, 2003
Alienated politics in an age of ignorance
December, 2002
For the Left's voice to be heard, it needs to play by the rules
November, 2002
Overheard in Union Square, September 11, 2002
October, 2002
Consuming September 11
September, 2002
The most evil and deceitful administration in American history
August, 2002
America's shallow globalization strategy
July, 2002
Avoiding the obvious Jewish responses to the mideast crisis: a response
to Jay Michaelson
June, 2002
It's a lonely world when you're both an anti-globalization leftist and a
Zionist.
May, 2002
The rich are ripping us off! What are you gonna do about it?
April, 2002
A WEF Protester Tells You Why He Bothers
March, 2002
An exclusive interview with the close confidant of many world despots.
February, 2002
January, 2002
There's a lot of frustration in the air. Channel your rage at the people
responsible for September 11 -- and we don't mean those cavemen in
Afghanistan.
December, 2001
A Parable after my hard drive crashed
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Christmas in Jerusalem
Jay Michaelson
Carobs
Elisha Porat
Dear Mr. Pinter
Dan Friedman
The Nuclear Physicist Gives his Son a Haircut
Hanan Harchol
Brodsky Begins, Part Two
Adam Mansbach
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