The Decameron: How to get away with a quarantine? On our need for stories in order to live

Once God guided us, but now, after its death, we turn to the Golem – rising against its own creator… Comparing The Golem & Metropolis

A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election

What can the death-defying Sisyphus and Orpheus teach us? Sisyphus is a story of liberty lost, Orpheus of freedom, and love, tested.

Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.

(or: The Mind's I-I) A slightly elaborated comment to Shirley's What Do You See?, a very fine illustration of freedom (choice) and facticity (forced reality)...

Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel Abulof & Shirley Le Pe...

We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious faith Growing up, Go...

If comedy is “the art of tension diffusion,” as Hannah Gadsby puts it, it’s a different sort of “tension diffusion” she's after – the art, and act, not of al...

Writer and Illustrator: Keshet Leah Abulof I heard many stories from my friend, and I thought this one is the least scary… Once upon a time there was a littl...

One of the first questions that came to my mind while watching Call Me by Your Name was - why choosing this title, and more importantly, what does it mean? W...

Why leave your love? I search for answers in Call Me by Your Name (the film & the book), and Milton’s Paradise Lost. This post is part of Sapienism’s quadrup...

What if you received an email saying you had been erased from someone’s memory, and that you should no longer attempt to contact them? Would you erase him/he...

Today, on Nevo’s eleventh birthday, I thought it might be fitting to celebrate on Sapienism, by writing a bit about his name – and trying my hand at translat...

Haynes’s 2015 film Carol makes a case for love against all odds – but is that love blind? Movie reviews are as old as cinema itself – for over a century now,...

Is music our mirror? Sometimes, music is meaning-making – helping us discover what, and whom, we love, and who we are. “Nashe understood that he was no longe...

In a war between the sexes, the main casualty is our humanity. “Cat Person” is a relatable short story, but it risks taking curiosity, courage and care out o...

Salma Hayek’s NYT piece, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too, is terrifyingly moving, and inspiring. It also made me wonder about the nature of courage and fo...