UrielAug 178 minWhat’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?
UrielMay 183 minIf 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
Amaury HoymansApr 106 minPangolin is the new LeninA random pangolin might have been more successful at triggering the questioning of capitalistic ideas than Lenin
UrielMar 134 minGod 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
Or Oved ErlichMar 63 minThe Unbearable Lightness of PoliticsThe meaning of lightness in politics is that each political nominate equals another. If this is indeed the attitude to politics of many in I
UrielMar 14 minThe Shape of HopeA friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election
UrielDec 17, 20196 minHave you Heart?Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.
UrielNov 23, 20198 minThe Rise and Hopeful Fall of BBismIsrael undergoes an unprecedented crisis… How has it come to this, and what does it say about Israel, politics, and the human condition?
Shirley Le PenneDec 31, 201810 minLove Life&Death: Klimt and SchieleCan art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel Ab...
UrielDec 15, 20184 minDo 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 ...
UrielFeb 11, 20187 minA Century of Self-DeterminationFew principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...
UrielDec 16, 20179 minHell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the TribeThe triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The w...
UrielDec 16, 20175 minThe 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...
UrielDec 16, 20175 minThe 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...
UrielDec 16, 20174 min Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the WestI had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two year...
UrielDec 16, 20173 minSelf-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of LegitimacyThe West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014), Vladim...
UrielDec 16, 20175 min A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab SpringWhen the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were ...
UrielDec 16, 20175 min What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab SpringOn July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed m...
