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Covid-19

Aug 17, 2020
8 min

What’s in an Un-Naming?

Should we remove names of controversial figures from public sites? Is un-naming a chosen, collective amnesia or a teaching moment?

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If Covid were a person, what would you ask him?

Uriel

May 18, 2020
3 min

If Covid were a person, what would you ask him?

Covid invites us to project upon it our own experiences and expectations, our fears and hopes, providing the perfect template to experiment

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Amaury Hoymans

Apr 10, 2020
6 min

Pangolin is the new Lenin

A random pangolin might have been more successful at triggering the questioning of capitalistic ideas than Lenin

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How much is the human life worth to a government?

Amaury Hoymans

Mar 20, 2020
4 min

How much is the human life worth to a government?

I have the impression of living in Albert Camus’ landmark 1947 novel La Peste. More than 70 years later, it appears that the situation we ar

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Uriel

Mar 13, 2020
4 min

God is Dead, Long Live Golem?

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

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Or Oved Erlich

Mar 6, 2020
3 min

The Unbearable Lightness of Politics

The meaning of lightness in politics is that each political nominate equals another. If this is indeed the attitude to politics of many in I

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Uriel

Mar 1, 2020
4 min

The Shape of Hope

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

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Uriel

Dec 17, 2019
6 min

Have you Heart?

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

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Uriel

Nov 23, 2019
8 min

The Rise and Hopeful Fall of BBism

Israel undergoes an unprecedented crisis… How has it come to this, and what does it say about Israel, politics, and the human condition?

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Shirley Le Penne

Dec 31, 2018
10 min

Love Life&Death: Klimt and Schiele

Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel Ab...

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Uriel

Dec 15, 2018
4 min

Do we need God to become Human?

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

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Uriel

Feb 11, 2018
7 min

A Century of Self-Determination

Few principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...

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Hell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the Tribe

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
9 min

Hell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the Tribe

The triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The w...

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The Liberal Uncanny: Fascism and Freedom at the Heart of Democracy

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
5 min

The Liberal Uncanny: Fascism and Freedom at the Heart of Democracy

“I know not what course others may take,” Patrick Henry concluded his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, “but as for me, give me...

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The Meaning of Life and Death (in Politics)

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
5 min

The Meaning of Life and Death (in Politics)

Irrational! How else can we explain the conducts of Putin, Netanyahu, Maduro, Jammeh, Kim Jong-un, Tsipras and ISIS? But to understand b...

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Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the West

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
4 min

Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the West

I had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two year...

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Self-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
3 min

Self-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy

The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014), Vladim...

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A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab Spring

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
5 min

A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab Spring

When the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were ...

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What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab Spring

Uriel

Dec 16, 2017
5 min

What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab Spring

On July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed m...

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